The Grizzly Project turned 1 yesterday, and accomplished quite a bit in just one year. While in its infancy compared to many other Comet server implementations, they have made quick strides in supporting Bayeux and DWR. Grizzly is part of the Glassfish application server, but has its own workspace and a growing community. In addition to code changes they’ve made a lot of progress on documentation and tutorials. It shows how productive the collaborative open source approach can be.

In celebration, AltMobile has also announced that they will soon release their Grizzly-based Dynamic Mashup Server, which will be available in the second quarter of this year. Their Dynamic Mashup Server product will support the mixing of web content through a full set of Ajax and Comet technologies. In addition to a full range of desktop browsers, the Dynamic Mashup Server will support the iPhone’s Safari browser. Mobile browsing is a great environment for Comet because the bandwidth/latency gains are so noticeable.

Additionally, the project lead for Grizzly, Jean-Francois Arcand, has also just signed on to be a Comet Daily contributor, so we’ll soon have more in-depth information here about Grizzly progress and best practices.