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Best bets for lightweight servlet container/server?

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Gerry Giese

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Best bets for lightweight servlet container/server? Posted: Feb 13, 2004 3:49 PM
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I'm looking for an open-source servlet container or servlet server (I'm not picky!) that is very lightweight. In other words, I don't need 'extras', I want it to be small and fast, and it doesn't have to handle very many users at all. And it wouldn't bother me if it only could server one webapp only. I would possibly deploy on very small servers or stand-alone user machines depending on the need, or even embed the code into an app. JSP support is purely optional.

Does anyone know of some options? And please don't point to the "How Web Servers Work" article at OnJava -- already looking at it.

When I do searches I usually find all the bigger servers or abandoned ones crowding the results (tomcat, resin, jetty, jigsaw, jserv) or end up getting hits for full-blown app servers. A stipped down resin or jetty might work, but it would be a lot of work, and might still be bigger than I'd really need. Gotta say I do love resin, though, both for ease-of-use and speed.

Thanks!


Charles Bell

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Re: Best bets for lightweight servlet container/server? Posted: Feb 14, 2004 3:21 PM
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Check out the Tomcat servlet engine.

Its open source and you can download and install it in a short while.

I do all my servlet and jsp development on it.

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html

Gerry Giese

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Re: Best bets for lightweight servlet container/server? Posted: Feb 17, 2004 8:41 AM
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Tomcat is much, much bigger than what I'm looking for. I don't need all of it's manageability features, authentication, admin tools, JNDI (I don't think a servlet container needs this, but I could be wrong), clustering, etc. Yeah, I could take it and make a light version of it, but that would take a while (sorting out dependencies, testing, etc). I was hoping to find something small, tested, and well-defined (i.e., already done!).

Any other suggestions? Or is there anyone who thinks that a "Tomcat Light" project is worth pursuing? I've heard some people say that Tomcat is kinda slow, so maybe a tighter, more focused version is needed to improve performance and meet the needs of those folks who don't need all of Tomcat's capabilities.

Charles Bell

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Re: Best bets for lightweight servlet container/server? Posted: Feb 17, 2004 9:49 AM
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http://www.mortbay.com/software/Jetty.html

Jetty Java HTTP Server
Jetty is an Open Source HTTP Servlet Server written in 100% Java. 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.

Gerry Giese

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Re: Best bets for lightweight servlet container/server? Posted: Feb 17, 2004 11:36 AM
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Jetty might be a little closer to what I'm looking for as it is embeddable, but looking at it I think it's almost as big as Tomcat. These two are just a lot bigger than I'm looking for. I guess maybe I should emphasize that I don't have a requirement that the container/server be fully spec-compliant? I'll keep looking around for something even more lightweight than Jetty. I really appreciate the replies, though!

Mike Sandman

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Re: Best bets for lightweight servlet container/server? Posted: Feb 17, 2004 7:54 PM
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i'm not sure just "how low are you willing to go"...but i do a bit of embedded development and have run across this project

http://users.rcn.com/cks.enteract/distributopia/index.html

MinTC is VERY minimal. the entire source code base is < 200KB

hope this helps...

Charles Bell

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Re: Best bets for lightweight servlet container/server? Posted: Feb 19, 2004 1:18 PM
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A comprehensive list of servlet engines is at:
http://www.servlets.com/engines/index.html

D R

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Re: Best bets for lightweight servlet container/server? Posted: Jan 4, 2007 5:02 PM
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I know currently two servlet/containers under 100K size. They are Winstone and TJWS.

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