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Jetty is a pure Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

-based HTTP client/server, WebSocket client/server and servlet container (Application server

Application server

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) developed as a free

Free software

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and open source

Open source

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project as part of the Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the open-source Eclipse Projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services...

. It is currently used in products such as ActiveMQ, Alfresco

Alfresco (software)

Alfresco is a Free/Libre enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco comes in two flavours. Alfresco Community Edition is free software, LGPL licensed open source and open standards. Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially & proprietary...

,
Apache Geronimo, Apache Maven

Apache Maven

Maven is a build automation and software comprehension tool. While primarily used for Java programming, it can also be used to build and manage projects written in C#, Ruby, Scala, and other languages. Maven serves a similar purpose to the Apache Ant tool, but it is based on different concepts and...

, Google App Engine

Google App Engine

Google App Engine is a platform as a service cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. It virtualizes applications across multiple servers,...

, Eclipse

Eclipse

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, FUSE

FUSE Services Framework

Fuse Services Framework is an open source SOAP and REST web services platform based on Apache CXF for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is productized and supported by the Fuse group at FuseSource Corp...

, HP OpenView, JBoss

JBoss

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, Liferay, Ubuntu

Ubuntu (operating system)

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, Twitter's Streaming API

HOSEbird

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and Zimbra

Zimbra

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. Jetty is also used as a standard Java application server by many open source projects such as Lift

Lift (web framework)

Lift is a free web application framework that is designed for the Scala programming language. It was originally created by who was dissatisfied with certain aspects of the Ruby on Rails framework. Lift was launched as an open-source project on February 26, 2007 under the Apache 2.0 license...

, Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus (computing)

Eucalyptus is a software platform for the implementation of private cloud computing on computer clusters. There is an open-core enterprise edition and an open-source edition. Currently, it exports a user-facing interface that is compatible with the Amazon EC2 and S3 services but the platform is...

and Hadoop

Hadoop

Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data...

Overview

Developed as an independent open source project, in 2009 Jetty moved to Eclipse. Jetty provides Web services in an embedded

Embedded system

An embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system. often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal...

Java application and it is already a component of the Eclipse IDE. It supports AJP

Apache JServ Protocol

The Apache JServ Protocol is a binary protocol that can proxy inbound requests from a web server through to an application server that sits behind the web server. It also supports some monitoring in that the web server can ping the application server...

, JASPI, JMX, JNDI, OSGi

OSGi

The Open Services Gateway initiative framework is a module system and service platform for the Java programming language that implements a complete and dynamic component model, something that does not exist in standalone Java/VM environments...

, Web Sockets and other Java technologies.

History

Originally developed in the Sydney

Sydney

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suburb of Balmain

Balmain, New South Wales

Balmain is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Balmain is located slightly west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Leichhardt....

by software engineer Greg Wilkins, Jetty was originally a HTTP server component of Mort Bay Server; Mort Bay being an area of Balmain.

Jetty was started in 1995 and was hosted by MortBay, creating version 1.x and 2.x, until 2000. From 2000 to 2005, Jetty was hosted by sourceforge.net where version 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x were produced. In 2005, the entire Jetty project moved to codehaus.org. As of 2009, the core components of Jetty have been moved to Eclipse.org, and Codehaus.org continues to provide integrations, extensions, and packaging of Jetty.

Version	Home	Java Version	HTTP Version	Servlet Version	JSP Version	Status
8.x	Eclipse, Codehaus	1.6	HTTP/1.1 RFC2616	3.0	2.1	Experimental
7.x	Eclipse, Codehaus	1.5, J2ME	HTTP/1.1 RFC2616	2.5	2.1	Stable
6.x	Codehaus	1.4-1.5	HTTP/1.1 RFC2616	2.5	2.0	Mature
5.x	Sourceforge	1.2-1.5	HTTP/1.1 RFC2616	2.4	2.0	Deprecated
4.x	Sourceforge	1.2, J2ME	HTTP/1.1 RFC2616	2.3	1.2	Ancient
3.x	Sourceforge	1.2	HTTP/1.1 RFC2068	2.2	1.1	Fossilized
2.x	Mortbay	1.1	HTTP/1.0 RFC1945	2.1	1.0	Legendary
1.x	Mortbay	1.0	HTTP/1.0 RFC1945			Mythical

External links

Jetty home page

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