Stefan Arentz

The friendly folks from Webtide, home of Jetty, have released a final version of Hightide, their ‘Pro’ supercharged version of the most excellent Jetty 6.1 web container.

Hightide includes many components that you frequently need in Web 2.0 / AJAX-centric web applications. ActiveMQ is integrated for example. Hightide also comes with a high performance Cometd/Bayeux server.

Hightide is open source and can be downloaded for free. Webtide provides commercial support for both development and production.

They were so kind to quote me in the Hightide press release:

Stefan Arentz, system architect for Polar Rose which has deployed Hightide in its web environment said, “There are multiple reasons for our participation in the Hightide development: Hightide currently provides the industry’s best cometd support, which we use uses to get real-time feedback in our Firefox extension. Hightide also integrates many standard Java technologies in a simple lean and mean package which removes the need for the more traditional fat application servers that we would otherwise use. Finally, as Hightide integrates so well in the development process and corresponding tools it has allowed us to be significantly more agile in implementing new functionality to our rather complex solution”.

Polar Rose provides a search engine built for online facial recognition. Utilizing 3D models, its spiders index the web for faces that it recognizes. Users can search and find images of a person simply by typing their name. An extension allows its users to collaboratively determine who someone is by tagging the names of people in images that the Polar Rose icon appears on.

We are VERY happy with Jetty, Hightide and the support from Webtide. It’s a solid product from a strong team.