JettyWhat is Jetty?
Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. See the Jetty Powered page for more uses of Jetty.
Jetty is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Full-featured and standards-basedOpen source and commercially usableFlexible and extensibleSmall footprintEmbeddableAsynchronousEnterprise scalableDual licensed under Apache and Eclipse
Jetty Pros & Cons
Pros of Jetty
- ✓Lightweight
- ✓Embeddable
- ✓Very fast
- ✓Scalable
- ✓Very thin
Cons of Jetty
- ✗Student
Jetty Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Jetty?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.
Microsoft IIS
Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.
