介绍三种可以嵌入到应用程序的轻量级的Http Server

HTTP Server is the modern way to provide Web Experience. However, Tomcat, Weblogic server and so on, are somehow weighted, especially for java utility application,

 

Many open source Web Server can be founded from http://java-source.net/open-source/web-servers.  There are three light embedded Http Servers that maybe you can choose to embedded in your application.

 

·         Nano:  The smallest http server

Free, simple, tiny (1 java file!), nicely embeddable HTTP server in Java. It can provide some basis Http function.

http://nanoserver.sourceforge.net/

 

·         Jetty: (Embedded)

Jetty is a 100% Java HTTP Server and Servlet Container. This means that you do not need to configure and run a separate web server (like Apache) in order to use java, servlets and JSPs to generate dynamic content. Jetty is a fully featured web server for static and dynamic content. Unlike separate server/container solutions, this means that your web server and web application run in the same process, without interconnection overheads and complications. Furthermore, as a pure java component, Jetty can be simply included in your application for demonstration, distribution or deployment. Jetty is available on all Java supported platforms. To use Embedding Jetty, there is simple tutorial for reference: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Tutorial/Embedding_Jetty

 

·         JDK 1.6 Http Server:

JDK 6.0 shipped a simple, but extendable Http Server by using class com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer. IBM developerworks site provides a easy steps on how to use this Http Server (Chinese) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cn/java/j-lo-jse62/index.html

 

	Size	Functionality	Support Servlet API	Extendibility	Configurable
Nano	Tiny (1 File)	Limited	No	Difficulty	No
Jetty (Embedded)	Middle	Rich Function	Yes	Flexible and extensible	Yes (XML Supported)
JDK 1.6 Http Server	Embedded in JRE	Basic	No	Medium	No

 

Any more light weight and good Http servers please add.