Originally Hightide (with jetty6) was a tight integration of some extra
software components into a full on separate offering from the traditional
jetty download.  This was when both concepts of 'jetty' and 'hightide' were
housed at The Codehaus.

Then in 2009 or so we decided to move the project to The Eclipse Foundation
and were suddenly having to sort out how to distribute a split project as
not everything was able to come to eclipse because of IP reasons (they are
very strict about what can and can't be downloaded from eclipse) and we had
to work for years with a org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-distribution and then
_something_ that contained some of the stuff that was left at The Codehaus.
 That extra distribution took on the monikor of hightide and over time
things started getting removed from it that made it different from the
normal jetty-distribution.  Ultimately it because nothing more then a thin
skin over the jetty-distribution so we have decided to let it fade away as
something unique.

Now with jetty-9 there is no 'Hightide' distribution per se...and no more
active components at The Codehaus for jetty-9.  We have migrated the
jetty-maven-plugin over from codehaus to eclipse and any active remaining
modules as well.  Moving forward we will have one release on release day, a
jetty-9 release whereas before with jetty7 and jetty8
releasing simultaneously on both the eclipse and codehaus sides release day
was comprised of 4 separate releases at the same time.

With jetty-9 we would like to have a more 'plugin' friendly setup for third
party integrations but we shelved our early efforts in that setup as not
ready for prime time and we'll pick it back up when we have a more clear
need and use cases.  Should the integrations formerly known as hightide
surface in jetty-9 it would be through such a plugin mechanism as opposed
to a full on separate distribution artifact as before.

cheers,
jesse

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jesse mcconnell
[email protected]


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I was looking for information about Jetty Hightide and was unable to find
> out if Jetty Hightide is something that belongs to the past, or if Jetty
> Hightide is a packaging of Jetty that is still available with every new
> Jetty 7/8/9 release?
>
>
> I looked at http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/ and could not find any
> mention of Hightide, which makes me think Jetty Hightide doesn't really
> exist any more?
>
> Thanks,
> Otis
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