The Jetty projects has was started in 1995 and since then has been associated with many names and brands:

Distribtions


    Jetty
    The Jetty Web Server provides an HTTP server and Servlet container capable of serving static and dynamic content either from a standalone or embedded instantiations. From jetty-7, the jetty webserver and other core compoments are hosted by the eclipse foundation. The project provides:

    • Asynchronous HTTP Server
    • Standard based Servlet Container
    • Web Sockets server
    • Asynchronous HTTP Client
    • OSGi, JNDI, JMX, JASPI, AJP support

    Hightide
    The Jetty Hightide application server is a distribution of the jetty Web Server assembled at codehaus with additional services like JNDI, XA & JDBC preconfigured. For jetty-hightide-6 this is an optimized, patched rebuild of jetty-6, while for jetty-hightide-7 it is distribution based on the standard jetty-7 artifacts combined with other third party integrations.

    Other distributions
    Jetty is available in many forms and distributions, including the jetty-maven-plugin, debian and RPMs from jetty@codehaus and as part of the Geronimo JEE application server from apache.

Homes


    Eclipse
    In 2009, the Jetty project moved its core components to be a project of the Eclipse Foundation, in order to improve the IP processes and broaden the licensing and community of the project.

    Codehaus
    In 2005, the jetty project moved to the codehaus for its hosting services and open source community. In 2009, after the core components of Jetty moved to eclipse, the jetty @ codehaus project continues to provide integrations, extensions and packaging of jetty.

    Sourceforge
    From 2000 to 2005, the jetty project was hosted at sourceforge.net where versions 3.x, 4.x and 5.x were produced.

Sponsors


    Intalio
    The role of the development of Jetty was taken over in 2009 by Webtide LLC, who acquired both Webtide and Mort Bay. Intalio is a company that offers both products and services based on open source software and they employ many of the jetty contributors.

    Webtide
    The role of leading the development of Jetty was taken over in 2006 by Webtide LLC, formed as a joint venture between Mort Bay and partners providing marketting, sales and strategic assistance.

    Mort Bay
    The Java HTTP server that became jetty was originally developed in 1995 by Greg Wilkins of Mort Bay Consulting as part of an issue tracking application. Versions 1.x through to 6.1.x of jetty were developed under org.mortbay packaging and Mort Bay still holds the major part of the copyright on the jetty code base. Mort Bay directly hosted the jetty project until version 3.x and was the prime sponsor of development until 6.x.

Versions


    Version Home Java HTTP Servlet JSP Status
    8.2 Eclipse 1.7 HTTP/1.1(RFC2616)
    Websocket(RFC6455)
    SPDY    		 3.0 2.1 Experimental
    8.x Eclipse,
    codehaus     		1.6 HTTP/1.1(RFC2616)
    Websocket(RFC6455)    		 3.0 2.1 Stable
    7.x Eclipse,
    codehaus     		1.5,
    J2ME    		 HTTP/1.1(RFC2616)
    Websocket(RFC6455)    		 2.5 2.1 Stable
    6.x codehaus 1.4-1.5 HTTP/1.1(RFC2616) 2.5 2.0 Mature
    5.x Sourceforge 1.2-1.5 HTTP/1.1(RFC2616) 2.4 2.0 Deprecated
    4.x Sourceforge 1.2,
    J2ME    		 HTTP/1.1(RFC2616) 2.3 1.2 Ancient
    3.x Sourceforge 1.2 HTTP/1.1(RFC2068) 2.2 1.1 Fossilized
    2.x Mortbay 1.1 HTTP/1.0(RFC1945) 2.1 1.0 Legendary
    1.x Mortbay 1.0 HTTP/1.0(RFC1945)     Mythical