[jetty-announce] Announcing Jetty 9.0.0

[Joakim Erdfelt <joakim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Eclipse Jetty Project team is proud to announce the first release of the new Jetty 9

        Jetty 9.0.0.v20130308

The Java Web Server with support for SPDY and WebSocket.

Distributions Downloads:

http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/stable-9/dist/

Java Artifacts Available on Maven Central:

http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.eclipse.jetty%22%20AND%20v%3A%229.0.0..v20130308%22

<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>

<version>9.0.0.v20130308</version>

Jetty 9.x Features:

• Completely overhauled I/O layer
• Servlet API 3.0
• JSP 2.2
• SPDY/3
• WebSocket (RFC-6455)

Notes for those migrating to Jetty 9.x:

• Requires Java 1.7 or newer.
• Jetty Maven Plugin has now been moved to org.eclipse.jetty groupId
• There is no org.mortbay or codehaus components
• Support for early WebSocket drafts has been dropped, only support released RFC-6455 spec.
• There now only 1 aggregate jar, called jetty-all.
• Bad UTF8 encoding will result in replacement characters being passed into the application to handle. (older versions of Jetty would fail the request)
• Removal of all traditional Socket (BIO) Connectors.
• Only supporting NIO for Connectors.
• Consolidated all of the various Deployment technique and scenarios into one.
• ContextDeployer and WebAppDeployer have been removed
• DeploymentManager has only 1 AppProvider now, the WebAppProvider
• WebAppProvider supports both Deployment Descriptors deployment and traditional Automatic WAR deployment.
• New Jetty Async Http Client
• New Jetty WebSocket Servlet & WebSocket Client
• A new Jetty XML DTD (http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9.0.dtd) changes the <Ref id=""> syntax in your Jetty XML to <Ref refid="">
• Removed Jetty6Continuation support

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Joakim Erdfelt <joakim@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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