Jetty Introduction

31 Jul 2012

For one of my project, it took long time for me to choose which technology stack I would use for the server. Finally I did not choose popular frameworks like ruby, scala, etc. I chose Java/ JSP soly because the technology is mature and I was lucky to have some experience playing with it. Though not a experienced Java server developer, I think my knowledge of Java should be sufficent to kick off.

Surfing the internet, I prefer Jetty + nginx over tomcat as the previous compostion provides much better concurrency performance.

Things get complex when I start to write code.

First thing is to configure the dev and deploy enviroment. This was a hard time.

JConsole

JConsole is a Java monitoring tool,