Beyond JVM 6

[Tal Liron]

It's great that Restlet 2.2 allows us to use Jetty 8, but Jetty 9 is already out and is very promising. Unfortunately, it requires JVM 7, and the Restlet project is not ready for the move.

But I believe this is important, so I forked the Jetty 8 connector and created a Jetty 9 connector for Restlet:

https://github.com/tliron/restlet-jetty9

Jetty 9 has a very different API, so this was not trivial.

But it all seems to work well: Jetty 9 is already fueling the Three Crickets main web site.

What this means is that at least JVM 7 will be recommended for Prudence, although it will still also support JVM 6. In detail:

JVM 8

The best experience: Prudence will be using Nashorn and Jetty 9.

JVM 7

You will be using Jetty 9 with Rhino.

JVM 6

You will need to downgrade to Jetty 8 explicitly:

sincerity add restlet.jetty8 : install