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Jetty is devloped under the guidance of Mort
Bay Consulting and released under an Open Source
License, derived from the Artistic License. Full source code is included in
all releases.
The
License puts few restrictions on usage of Jetty, which is free for commercial use and distribution.
The developers of Jetty ask users to inform themselves of the issues,
political, legal or otherwise that motivate and threaten the development of
Open
Source and Free Software.
The Jetty user and development community is active and welcomes new
contributors.
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Jetty has been optimized by commercial and experimental use since 1995 and
a small and efficient server is the result: - A HTTP/1.1 server can be configured in a jar file under 300KB.
- Jetty consistently benchmarks as one of the fastest servlet servers.
- Jetty servers scale well to thousands of simultaneous connections
- Server performance degrades gracefully under stress.
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Jetty has been widely used in commercial and open source
projects and applications, ranging across the full spectrum of runtime environments
from hand helds to main frames. To illustrate this diversity, we have put
together a (far from exhaustive) list of Jetty Powered products. Here
are just a few of highlights:
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For many applications, HTTP is just another interface protocol. Jetty can
easily be embedded in such applications and products without adopting a
WWW centric application architecture. Examples of embedded Jetty usage include: - Integration into application servers such as JBoss and Jonas.
- Bundled with the JXTA project as the
basis for its HTTP transport.
- Included in many products products including IBM tivolli, Sonic MQ and
Cisco SESM.
- Used for the CD demo disk in several books on XML and Servlets.
- Run on embedded systems and handheld devices.
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