In the following article we are going to explain how you can install Jetty on a CentOS 7 VPS.
Jetty is a Java HTTP (Web) server and Java Servlet container and provides support for SPDY, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations. It is often used for machine to machine communications, within larger software frameworks. Jetty is developed as a free and open source project as part of the Eclipse Foundation.
Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. It can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters.
Jetty has the following features:
- Full-featured and standards-based
- Open source and commercially usable
- Flexible and extensible
- Small footprint
- Embeddable
- Asynchronous
- Enterprise scalable
- Dual licensed under Apache and Eclipse