Enterprise Java for Linux HOWTO 

3.4 Jetty HTTP Server and Servlet Container 

Background 

Jetty is an Open Source HTTP Servlet Server written in 100% Java.  It is both a full featured HTTP/1.1 server

and a Servlet Container.  It is designed to be light weight, high performance, embeddable, extensible  and

flexible, thus making it an ideal platform for serving dynamic HTTP  requests from any Java application. 

Jetty can be used as a stand-alone HTTP server and servlet container or  it can be embedded in another java

application (eg. the JBoss EJB container  is using Jetty as it s prefered server and container solution). 

As a combined server and servlet container, both these functions run  efficiently in a single unix process.

Installation and configuration  is also simpler as a single application. 

Download

The Jetty HTTP Server and Servlet container may be downloaded via: 

http://jetty.mortbay.org

. 

Jetty is distributed under the artistic license, full source is included and it can be used and distributed

commercially. 

Installation 

The package is distributed as a gzipped tar file, which can be unpacked with: 

gunzip < Jetty-x.x.x.tgz | tar xf - 

Which will create a Jetty-x.x.x directory where x.x.x is the version  number. 

To run the demo server: 

export JETTY_HOME=

export JAVA_HOME=

$JETTY_HOME/bin/jetty.sh run 

Then to see the Jetty demo and tutorial point a browser at 

 http://localhost:8080

. 

Jetty can also be installed and run via JMX or as part of the JBoss distributions.  See

http://jetty.mortbay.org

 or the README.TXT file for more details. 

4.

 How to Setup Java Servlet Support 

There are several Web Server plug-ins and Application Servers available for Linux that provide support for

Java Servlets.  These include: 

Allaire JRun

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