| WebTide Ports Java Servlet to Google Android | | Print | |
| Wednesday, 12 March 2008 | |
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With anticipation building over the Google Android open platform for mobile phones, Webtide has adapted its Jetty Java servlet container to the environment. The port, called i-Jetty, is now available for download from Google Code. The idea is that Jetty is a slimmed down Java web container that provides high throughput, and therefore, because it's so lightweight it’s well suited for a mobile footprint. The other part of the logic is that developers are used to Java servlets, so having the servlet ported to Android would make the new Google mobile platform that much more accessible to apps. Furthermore, with a servlet container on the Android platform itself, the mobile device could become a miniature webserver, which would allow device owners to update their devices from their computers in similar manner of PDAs, except that in this case, the connection would have to be made via a wireless network and of course, the device would have to be wireless-ready. Like everything open source (which is what Jetty is), the new Android port of Jetty, called i-Jetty, is a work in progress. So at this point, it doesn't fully support the latest features of Java Servlet 2.5, especially its dynamic class loading which lets apps do discovery of new features or updates at run time. Jan Bartel, chief engineer of Webtide, claims that Google is likely to add such support tin an upcoming rev of Android.             |
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