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Ben McCann
Personal blog · benmccann.com/blogprogrammingweb
Ben McCann's personal blog at benmccann.com covers programming and web. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-09, and you can follow it by feed.
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You can do "java -jar MyApp.jar -Dport=8080" with both Tomcat and Jetty using what they call "embedded mode". I like the Jetty embedded mode much more because it starts up so much faster. The Tomcat embedded mode does have the benefit of an easier to understand API, but it's not worth the speed trade-off for me. Here's examples of both: http://www.benmccann.com/dev-blog/embedded-jetty/ http://www.benmccann.com/dev-b…
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on “The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover)”Submitted Running Marathon and Mesos with Panamax as a story · 2 points
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