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Jetty is an open-source, standards-based, full-featured web server implemented
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entirely in Java. It is released under the Apache 2.0 licence and is therefore
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free for commercial use and distribution.
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Jetty can be used as:
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* a stand-alone traditional web server for static and dynamic content
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* a dynamic content server behind a dedicated HTTP server such as Apache
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using mod_proxy
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* an embedded component within a Java application
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Some of the defining features of Jetty are:
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Simplicity: The guiding principle of Jetty could be said to be "simplicity not
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complexity". We want to make Jetty easy to understand and use:
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Efficiency: A lot of effort goes into optimizing Jetty's performance and
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crafting the code so as to make the footprint as small as possible.
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Embeddability: Jetty is designed to be a good component. This means that it can
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easily be embedded in an application without forcing the application to adapt to
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it.
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Pluggability: Jetty is architected for pluggability. The API allows different
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implementations of all of the principal Jetty components to be selected. At
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least one, but sometimes more, implementations of a component are always
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provided. However if these do not meet your needs, you are free to code your own
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using the interfaces and abstract classes as a basis. This means that Jetty
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can be easily customised to a particular application environment. This is
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particularly useful when Jetty is acting as the web container in a J2EE server,
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as Jetty's pluggability ensures a tight integration with a host container.
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WWW: http://jetty.mortbay.com/
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