Jetty

Jetty: All in one JAVA HTTP server, client and servlet container

All in one JAVA HTTP server, client and servlet container

The Jetty Hightide is an all in one application server assembled in codehaus and next to basic features such as Java HTTP server, Java HTTP client and Servlet container it offers additional services such as JNDI, XA & JDBC. All these additional services are preconfigured and ready to use out of the box.

Wity Jetty web server you will be able to serve static and dynamic content from both standalone servers or from embedded instantiations.

If you plan on installing Jetty Hightide 6 mind that this is an optimized and patched rebuild of Jetty 6, and if you plan on running Hightide 7, the distribution is based on standard Jetty 7 artifacts with the combination of different third party integrations.

Jetty can be used in all kinds of projects or products and it can be implemented into devices, tools, frameworks, app servers and all kinds of clusters.

Jetty offers stunning server capabilities and comes with many useful features. It is a fully features and standards based HTTP server and it is completely open source thus commercially usable. It offers flexibility and extensibility and it leaves small footprint. Jetty is completely embeddable and asynchronous and it can be scalable to match enterprise use. It is dually licensed under Apache and Eclipse.

Core components of Jetty include asynchronous HTTP server, standards based Servlet container, web sockets server, SPDY server, asynchronous HTTP client, OSGi / JNDI / JMX / JASPI and AJP support.