Jean-Francois Arcand has worked for Sun Microsystems since 2000. He currently works on GlassFish, mainly on the WebContainer and the new Java NIO based http engine called Grizzly. Before joining Sun, he has worked as a software architect for compagnies such as France Telecom, Microcell Telecom and HMS Software, in both Java and C++. Jean-Francois lives and works from home in Prevost, a very small city in Quebec where life is perfect.
Atmosphere 0.4, the framework that allow the creation of RESTFul and Ajax Push/Comet applications, is ready for prime time. This release contains many new features and can be seen in action in...
We have been quiet for awhile with the monster...but we keep making improvements, and this week the team is proud to announce the GA availability of 1.9.18
Writing Comet application is more and more simple, thanks to framework like LIft and Atmosphere. On the Client side, the difference between Safari, Opera, Firefox, IE and Chrome can make your...
Atmosphere 0.3 released with support for Scala, Clustering, Injections, Grails Support, Cometd/Bayeux Protocol, many performance improvements, and many new extension points!!
It is really simple to add clustering support to an Atmosphere's Comet based application, and deploy it inside any Servlet Container supporting Servlet 3.0, Comet or not. You just have to decide...
In that part, I describe a simple asynchronous REST application using behaviors.js, prototype.js and the Atmosphere Framework. As usual, you can deploy the app anywhere! If you interested to look...
After couple of weeks collecting feedback from the newly created community (THANKS!), Atmosphere 0.1 GA is now available with support for Glassfish 1/...
Today we are releasing our first Grizzly 2.0 release, which we are working on since almost 2 years. Get ready for the revolution! But how this Grizzly things started?
Atmosphere 0.1-ALPHA1 is now officially released and support Tomcat, Jetty, Grizzly and GlassFish. Finally a Comet/Ajax Push framework you can build on...
To make the project more fun and appealing, we have launched a contest for Project Grizzly: find us a logo! The deadline is February 28. Let's the artist...
We got attacked by a community boost in January, which resulted in tons of contributions and improvements to the monster. This is for sure our biggest...
A lot of applications/framework (like Jersey, Hudson, DWR, etc.) out there just consist of a single Servlet which dispatch requests to its appropriate internal components. In such case, a full...