Thanks Jesse for the quick and thorough explanation. Otis -- Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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 > > -- > jesse mcconnell > jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Otis Gospodnetic < > otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> ---- >> Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - >> http://sematext.com/spm >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> jetty-users mailing list >> jetty-users@eclipse.org >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > jetty-users mailing list > jetty-users@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users > >
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