on Dec 5th, 2008Jetty at Eclipse.org?
It looks like Christmas is coming early this year for me.
From the looks of it, the Jetty project has plans to move to Eclipse.org, which means that we will have a first-class webserver developed at Eclipse. Imagine all the possibilities with Eclipse RT technologies like Equinox, EclipseLink, ECF, etc…. What’s even more important is these goals outlined by the Jetty team:
- The upcoming Jetty 7.x version for servlet-3.0 be hosted by Eclipse and would be dual licensed with both the current Apache 2.0 license and the Eclipse Public License (EPL).
- brings new potential contributors and resources
- the opportunity to help drive the OSGi standards past the 2.4 servlet spec
- taking the opportunity of repackaging to fix some bad practices (e.g., packages split over jars)
- Closer relationships with the growing OSGi communities
- Improved legal status through the foundations due diligence and procedures
I think this move is great for both Eclipse and Jetty ecosystems. I’m excited!
That is really interesting news. Do you have a link to where you learned about these plans? I could not find anything on the Jetty or Webtide sites.
Does the link in the blog post work for you? It was on the Jetty announce mailing list.
Excellent news!
BTW just a comment on the blog format… this is branded as the EclipseSource blog, but you’re writing in the first person (e.g. “I’m excited”) and there’s no indication of who actually wrote this entry. I’m guessing Jeff?
Thanks for the bug report Neil! I missed adding the author on single post entries. A little WordPress magic and that will be fixed.
I was the one who wrote the post, Jeff likes to blog once in a millennium
Just for that I will have to blog a lot now…
Yesterday this news was postet on heise.de: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Weihnachten-bei-Eclipse-Webserver-Projekt-Jetty-zieht-um–/meldung/120068
I think it’s a great benefit for the eclipse ecosystem.