Jetty: Open Source Servlet Container & HTTP Server

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I’ve recently become interested in Microservices and Jetty is a good choice of servlet container for running and serving microservices.

From the Jetty homepage:

Jetty provides a Web server and javax.servlet container, plus support for SPDY, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and
many other integrations. These components are open source and available for commercial use and distribution.

Features

  • Full-featured and standards-based
  • Open source and commercially usable
  • Flexible and extensible
  • Small footprint
  • Embeddable
  • Asynchronous
  • Enterprise scalable
  • Dual licensed under Apache and Eclipse