Jetty Road Map 
Stable Series: Jetty 4.2.x
This is the current stable series of Jetty since November 2002. Development is
continuing on this series for stability, increased integration and extensions such as:
- JBoss integration.
- Jonas integration.
- JMX extension.
- JettyPlus JNDI and JOTM integration.
The code of 4.2.x is in the Jetty_4_2 branch of CVS.
Development Series: Jetty 5.0.x
The servlet specication 2.4 will final in Q4 2003. The 2.4 spec is
pretty incremental on the 2.3 spec, so this will be an evolution rather than
revolution. The Jetty 5 series is an moderate increment of the 4.2 series, which
already had much of the required infrastructure for the 2.4 specification.
This will allow a stable Jetty 5.0 to be release soon after the final specification.
Jetty 5.0 is currently in alpha release and the latest code is available
in the CVS HEAD.
Experimental Series
The JettyExperimental CVS
contains experimental code for a new HTTP layer for Jetty. The code is close to providing
a fully HTTP/1.1 compliant stack meeting the following aims:
- Flyweight. The code has been stripped down to just support the core HTTP/1.1
- Improved buffering for performance, minimal footprint and portability. NIO direct buffers
will be able to be used where available.
- It is blocking-agnostic, so that NIO non-blocking semantics can be used when
the application layer supports it
- Highly portable. It is intended for the stack to be able to run on anything from
a PDA to the latest greatest version of JRE on a SMP
The code is close to a first release of a HTTP stack in Q4 2003.
Only once the HTTP stack is stable and tested, will servlets be considered
for main release. Jetty 5.1 is the likely target in Q1 2004.
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