off the top of my head - jetty7 and 8 are actively maintained production releases, jetty6 has not had a maintenance release in 1 1/2 years...and at this rate might not - jetty7 and 8 have tracked updates in the nio and ssl impls of the jdk and are considered stable at this point...using the latest jetty and latest jdk (6.3x+ or 7) nio and ssl should behave - jetty7 and 8 have support for websocket and spdy protocols which offer substantial improvements over straight http for many, if not most usage scenarios (browser support required) - jetty7 and 8 have about 3 years of improvements over jetty6 at this point, better logging, improved ssl support, better support for how mobile devices use http (which is often subtly different then normal re: pipelining, etc), etc, etc - jetty7 and 8 are basically the same codebase, with 8 being a thin layer over 7 to support servlet 3.0 api..they release simultaneously - jetty9 is under development, will be awesome, and will support forthcoming servlet 3.1 api, and should be milestoning in a few months and releasing this year -- it will be easier to update from 7 or 8 to 9 then from 6 all the way to 9
really it depends on what your usage scenario is on how things improve with 7 or 8, i would recommend it simply because 6 and many earlier versions of 7 and 8 had to have hacks in the NIO guts of jetty to work around known 100% cpu type bugs in the jdk...which using the latest jdks we were finally able to stripe all those workarounds out and have a clearer core for 7.6.x and 8.1.x ...which has lead to a wonderful refactoring of that entire layer in jetty9 cheers, jesse -- jesse mcconnell [email protected] On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Matt Hauck <[email protected]> wrote: > I am working on a project that uses jetty 6.1.21, and am considering > upgrading to jetty 7. I actually did put in some work to do this, but we > haven't made the decision to move forward on it yet or not. My main hope was > for performance improvement, but I did not see much of that: it seemed jetty > 6 did a bit better actually. I think I heard something about SSL > improvements in post jetty 6, but I'm not too sure about that. I have > searched the wiki for reasons to upgrade, or the major improvements of jetty > 7 but haven't found much, beyond beginning to support servlet 3.0 apis. > > Would you try to convince me to upgrade to jetty 7 (or even 8)? Why? > > -- > Matt Hauck > > > _______________________________________________ > jetty-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users > _______________________________________________ jetty-users mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users
