Project Grizzly Releases Version 1.9.18, Looks Ahead to v2.0.0

The Project Grizzly team has released Version 1.9.18. Jean-Francois Arcand summarizes the new release in his blog post, which is featured below in Java Today. The version number of the latest release implies a couple things: 1) the Grizzly team is working on a Version 2.0.0; and 2) the current release consists primarily of stability enhancements (bugs are fixed and performance is improved). Both of these are correct. Jean-Francois explains: This version doesn't contains any new features as we have focused on performance and fixing bugs. The change logs can be found here. Note that we are more and more to work on the Grizzly Servlet Container and make it pass the Servlet 2.5 TCKs. Hopefully before the end of the year we will have it working on both Grizzly 1.9.x and 2.0.0! On The Grizzly 2.0.0 side, we have been swamped by the upcoming GlassFish v3 release all summer (hopefully Oracle allow us more resources :-))....but 1.9.18 should be the last one integrated in v3, hence we will resume our full time work on completing Grizzly 2.0.0. If you're not familiar with Project Grizzly, the project summary states: Writing scalable server applications in the Java programming language has always been difficult. Before the advent of the Java New I/O API (NIO), thread management issues made it impossible for a server to scale to thousands of users. The Grizzly NIO and Web framework has been designed to help developers to take...

Date: September, 16 2009
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2009/09/16/project-grizzly-releases-version-1918-looks-ahead-v200

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