Jetty (web server)

Jetty
Original author(s)Greg Wilkins
Developer(s)Eclipse Foundation
Initial release1995; 30 years ago (1995)
Stable release(s)
12.0.x12.0.0 / August 7, 2023; 17 months ago (2023-08-07)[1]
11.0.x11.0.15 / April 13, 2023; 20 months ago (2023-04-13)[1]
10.0.x10.0.15 / April 13, 2023; 20 months ago (2023-04-13)[1]
9.4.x9.4.52 / August 28, 2023; 16 months ago (2023-08-28)[1]
RepositoryJetty Repository
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform (JVM)
TypeWeb server, Servlet container
LicenseApache License 2.0, Eclipse Public License v1.0
Websitejetty.org

Eclipse Jetty is a Java web server and Java Servlet container. While web servers are usually associated with serving documents to people, Jetty is now often used for machine to machine communications, usually within larger software frameworks. Jetty is developed as a free and open source project as part of the Eclipse Foundation. The web server is used in products such as Apache ActiveMQ,[2] Alfresco,[3] Scalatra, Apache Geronimo,[4] Apache Maven, Apache Spark, Google App Engine,[5] Eclipse,[6] FUSE,[7] iDempiere,[8] Twitter's Streaming API[9] and Zimbra.[10] Jetty is also the server in open source projects such as Lift, Eucalyptus, OpenNMS, Red5, Hadoop and I2P.[11] Jetty supports the latest Java Servlet API (with JSP support) as well as protocols HTTP/2 and WebSocket.

Overview

Jetty started as an independent open-source project in 1995. In 2009 Jetty moved to Eclipse.[12][13] Jetty often provides support for Web services in an embedded Java application and it is already a component of the Eclipse IDE. It provides support for a wide variety of specifications and protocols including JASPI, JMX, JNDI, OSGi, WebSocket, HTTP/2, and more.[5]

History

Originally developed by software engineer Greg Wilkins, Jetty was an HTTP server component of Mort Bay Server. It was originally called IssueTracker (its original application) and then MBServler (Mort Bay Servlet server). Neither of these were much liked, so Jetty was finally picked.[14]

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.[15] As of 2009, the core components of Jetty have been moved to Eclipse.org, and Codehaus.org continued to provide integrations, extensions, and packaging of Jetty versions 7.x and 8.x (not 9.x)[16][17] In 2016, the main repository of Jetty moved to GitHub,[18] where it is still developed under the Eclipse IP Process.

Version Home Min Java Version Protocols Servlet Version JSP Version Status
12.0.x Eclipse 17 HTTP/1.1 RFC7230, HTTP/2 RFC7540, WebSocket RFC6455/JSR356, FastCGI, JakartaEE Namespace 3.1, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 2.3, 3.0, 3.1 Stable[19]
11.0.x Eclipse 11 HTTP/1.1 RFC7230, HTTP/2 RFC7540, WebSocket RFC6455/JSR356, FastCGI, JakartaEE Namespace 5.0 3.0 EOL / Security Only[19]
10.0.x Eclipse 11 HTTP/1.1 RFC7230, HTTP/2 RFC7540, WebSocket RFC6455/JSR356, FastCGI 4.0 2.3 EOL / Security Only[19]
9.4.x Eclipse 1.8 HTTP/1.1 RFC7230, HTTP/2 RFC7540, WebSocket RFC6455/JSR356, FastCGI 3.1 2.3 EOL / Security Only[19]
9.3.x Eclipse 1.8 HTTP/1.1 RFC7230, HTTP/2 RFC7540, WebSocket RFC6455/JSR356, FastCGI 3.1 2.3 Deprecated[19]
9.2.x Eclipse 1.7 HTTP/1.1 RFC2616, WebSocket RFC6455, SPDY v3 3.1 2.3 Deprecated[19]
9.1.x Eclipse 1.7 HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 3.1 2.3 Deprecated[19]
9.0.x Eclipse 1.7 HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 3.1-beta 2.3 Deprecated[19]
8.x Eclipse/Codehaus 1.6 HTTP/1.1 RFC2616, WebSocket RFC6455, SPDY v3 3.0 2.2 Venerable[19]
7.x Eclipse/Codehaus 1.5 HTTP/1.1 RFC2616, WebSocket RFC6455, SPDY v3 2.5 2.1 Venerable[19]
6.x Codehaus 1.4–1.5 HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 2.5 2.0 Antique[19]
5.x SourceForge 1.2–1.5 HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 2.4 2.0 Relic[19]
4.x SourceForge 1.2, J2ME HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 2.3 1.2 Ancient[19]
3.x SourceForge 1.2 HTTP/1.1 RFC2068 2.2 1.1 Fossilized[19]
2.x Mortbay 1.1 HTTP/1.0 RFC1945 2.1 1.0 Legendary[19]
1.x Mortbay 1.0 HTTP/1.0 RFC1945 - - Mythical[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Releases · eclipse/jetty.project". github.com. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  2. ^ "ActiveMQ with Ajax and Jetty". Jetty Wike (Codehaus). Archived from the original on 2011-08-30. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  3. ^ JM.Pascal (April 2010). "Maven + Alfresco : Jetty, Boostrap and Profil". Going to an OpenSource ECM World.... Archived from the original on 2012-01-07. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  4. ^ "Configuring Virtual Hosts in Geronimo-Jetty". Apache Geronimo Documentation. 6 January 2009. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  5. ^ a b Wickesser, Craig (5 August 2009). "Google Chose Jetty for App Engine". InfoQ. C4Media Inc. Retrieved 12 Apr 2011.
  6. ^ "jetty://". Eclipse. Retrieved 12 Apr 2011.
  7. ^ "class JettyHttpComponent". FuseSource. Red Hat. Archived from the original on March 15, 2011. Retrieved 12 Apr 2011.
  8. ^ "Platform Upgrade for r3". Retrieved 8 Apr 2014.
  9. ^ "Twitter Streaming API and Apache Wink". Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  10. ^ Zhuang, JJ (18 December 2007). "Zimbra Blog: Why we switched to Jetty". Zimbra. VMware. Retrieved 12 Apr 2011.
  11. ^ "Powered by Jetty". Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 24 Sep 2012.
  12. ^ Lieber, Adam (December 2008). "Jetty: The Twelve Year Journey to Market Maturity". Linux Gazette. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
  13. ^ "About Jetty". Jetty. Archived from the original on 6 January 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  14. ^ "Jetty/FAQ - Eclipsepedia". Wiki.eclipse.org. 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  15. ^ "Jetty - Java HTTP Servlet Server / Mailing Lists". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  16. ^ About Jetty Archived 2015-05-31 at the Wayback Machine, Located on Codehaus.
  17. ^ About Jetty Archived 2010-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, Located on Eclipse.
  18. ^ "The Eclipse Jetty Project repository has moved to Github!". 2016-02-12.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Jetty Versions". eclipse.org. Retrieved 2024-10-11.

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