Abyss Web Server vs. Apache HTTP Server vs. Eclipse Jetty vs. Java Comparison Chart

Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Despite its small footprint, it supports HTTP/2, secure SSL/TLS connections (HTTPS), automated provisioning and renewal of free certificates from Let's Encrypt® (ACME v2), IPv6, on-the-fly HTTP compression, dynamic content generation through CGI/FastCGI scripts, ISAPI extensions, native ASP.NET, HTTP/HTTPS/WebSocket reverse proxying, eXtended Side Includes (XSSI), custom error pages, password protection, IP address control, anti-leeching, bandwidth throttling, and log rotation. It also features an automatic antihacking system as well as a multilingual remote web management interface that makes its configuration as easy as browsing a web site.

Jetty provides a web server and servlet container, additionally providing support for HTTP/2, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations. These components are open source and are freely available for commercial use and distribution. Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty has long been loved by developers due to its long history of being easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and modern cloud services. Full-featured and standards-based. Open source and commercially usable, flexible and extensible, small footprint, embeddable, asynchronous, enterprise scalable, and dual-licensed under Apache and Eclipse. Large clusters, such as Facebook Presto. Cloud computing, such as Google AppEngine. With the direction of Java and the JakartaEE project (formerly JavaEE) in 2020, the current recommended version of Jetty for use depends upon the servlet API version, desired licensing, etc.