Jetty is an Open Source HTTP Servlet Server written in Java. It is a full featured HTTP/1.1 server and a Servlet container. It is designed to be small, fast, embeddable and extensible. It supports HTTP/1.1, servlets 2.3, and JSP 1.2.
| Tags | Internet FTP Web Dynamic Content HTTP Servers |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Artistic |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Java |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release upgrades the JSSE libraries to fix a security vulnerability found in the reference implementation of SSL. SSL users are advised to upgrade to this release or update their SSL jars from JSSE 1.0.3_01.


Release Notes: This release fixes the pathParam bug for ;jsessionid, doesn't process conditional headers and ranges for includes, adds Log4jSink in the contrib directory, and fixes the requestedSessionId null bug,


Release Notes: Support for the 2.3 servlet spec, improved HTTP/1.1 handling, further improvements in scalability with deployments tested on J2ME platforms to enterprise servers, J2EE support via increased integration with JBoss, and Jetty4 is the default server of JBoss3.


Release Notes: This version fixes an important security problem with authentication constraints.


Release Notes: This development release is the first publicized release for the 2.3 servlet specification and 1.2 JSP engine. The Jetty4 package has been significantly restructured for clarity and flexibility.
Recent comments
15 Apr 2000 06:16
Jetty Performance - fatest servlet engine
In a recent review by iX magazine, Jetty2 was found to be
the fastest servlet engine tested :
ServletExec 2.2 (with Apache 1.3.9)
Jetty 2.2.4
Java Webserver 2.0
Jserv 1.0 (with Apache 1.3.6)
Jigsaw 2.0.3
JRun Pro 2.3.2 (with Apache 1.3.6)
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