[jetty-users] What's new in Jetty 7?

[Andrus Adamchik <andrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

This may have been asked before, but I couldn't find any definite  
resource describing the changes between Jetty 6 & 7.

Some background... I am now contemplating an upgrade of a large  
cluster of Jetty 6.1.11 instances (seriously customized for  
centralized cluster management, logging, etc.). With some fairly light  
effort I was able to port it to 7.0.0.RC3 and run in a test  
environment. So I do realize the extent of code refactoring that  
happened between the versions (and btw, thanks for the great job  
preserving backwards compatibility during migration to Eclipse!)

Now I am curious if there's any new features under the hood to justify  
moving the new version to production, instead of waiting till Jetty  
8 / Servlet 3.0? Going through the docs the only thing that I found is  
this:

"From Jetty 7 onwards, the Continuations API has been extended to be a  
general purpose API that will work asynchronously on any servlet-3.0  
container, as well as on Jetty 6, 7, or 8."

Which is definitely important. Any other major feature changes that  
I'm missing?

Thanks
Andrus