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


Changes: 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.


Changes: 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,


Changes: 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.


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


Changes: 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.
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Recent commentsJetty 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)
Detail available at http://www.mortbay.com/software/iX.html. Jetty is
available at http://www.mortbay.com/software/Jetty.html.