Jetty hosting

Jetty is an open source and a standards based web server which has been implemented fully in java. It is a feature rich project which gives the users various options. It was first created in the year 1995, and later developed as an independent project, in the year 2009. Since it is an open source project, it has benefitted from the valuable inputs from a huge community of users and a consistent as well as focussed development by the stable group of lead developers. Jetty is a HTTP server based on Java which has been developed as a free project as a part of the Eclipse Foundation. At present it is being used in products like the Eclipse, ActiveMQ, Google App Engine, Alfresco, Zimbra Apache Geronimo, Apache Maven, FUSE, HP OpenView, Ubuntu, JBoss, Liferay and Twitter's Streaming API etc. Jetty hosting is also used by various open source projects like the Hadoop and Eucalyptus as a standard Java application server.

Jetty can be used as a traditional web server for the static as well as dynamic content. It is a dynamic content server behind a dedicated HTTP server such as the Apache which uses mod_proxy, which is an embedded component within the java application. Jetty hosting has been architected for providing support plugins. The API permits various implementations of all the principal Jetty hosting components that are to be selected. Minimum one or more implementations of a component are provided in most of the cases. However the users are also free to code their own by using the interfaces and abstract classes as a basis if the preset ones do not meet their requirements. Thus Jetty hosting can be customised easily to any particular application environment.

Jetty hosting provides Web services which are in an embedded Java application and a component of the Eclipse IDE. It supports AJP, JMX, Web Sockets, JASPI, JNDI, and OSGi as also a number of other Java technologies. Jetty hosting is also a provider of HTTP server, HTTP client as also javax.servlet container. These components are mostly open source and are available for commercial purposes as also distribution. Jetty can be used in a number of different projects and products. It can be embedded in devices such as mobiles and phones, frameworks such as GWT, tools like the Eclipse IDE, SaaS such as Yahoo! Zimbra application servers such as the Apache Geronimo, Cloud computing, such as the Google App Engine as also large clusters like the Yahoo Hadoop Cluster.

Features of Jetty hosting:

• It is feature rich and so can be customized by the users.
• It is based on standards.
• It is an open source project and so enjoys a huge community support. The inputs from the volunteers across the globe, brings in continuous improvements.
• Jetty hosting has double licensing; one under Apache and the other under Eclipse.
• Jetty hosting is extremely flexible as also extensible. It is enterprise scalable.
• Jetty hosting also provides various options for embedding.