I personally use Tomcat a lot more, mainly because it started as the reference implementation (though I know it no longer technically holds that position). The few times I've wanted to use Jetty I've had to switch back to Tomcat due to lack of system admin knowledge (ie: the various admins I was working with didn't know it).
That all said, I almost never use Hosted Mode, and system admins don't have to deal with a development time engine. Tomcat does have much better IDE support than Jetty, but since Hosted Mode is in charge of that, again it makes no real difference. When I do run Hosted Mode it's with the -noserver option. So my end opinion: I think the change is a good idea, since the additional speed and lower memory load will encourage people trying out GWT for the first time. Tim wrote: > jetty is awesome. > > In their latest drop (6.1.12.rc2 and rc3) there is a new feature in > maven-jetty-plugin to reload jetty on keyboard events in console > rather than automatically - it's indispensable when java GWT code > lives in the same source tree as the server side java code (just in > different package). And generally, maven jetty plugin is way better > than Cargo stuff that's used for Tomcat. > > Also, Jetty Continuations are just some much easier to work with than > Tomcat's Comet. No wonder they are including it into Servlet spec 3.0. > > Nothing particularly wrong with Tomcat but I think it's just lagging > in terms of developer productivity features behind Jetty. > > > On Oct 13, 9:42 pm, "Michael Vogt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Bruce. >> >>> As part of this effort, we've all but decided to switch the hosted mode >>> embedded HTTP server from Tomcat to Jetty. Would this break you? (And if so, >>> how mad would you be if we did it anyway?) We figure most people who really >>> care about the web.xml and so on are already using "-noserver" to have full >>> control over their server config. >> I personally would welcome Jetty. I'm using it as part of Grails right >> now. It's fast and easy going. >> >> Cheers, >> Michael > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
