Open Source Java HTTP Servers for Linux

GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards: WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS and REST

HSQLDB is a relational database engine written in Java, with a JDBC driver, conforming to ANSI SQL:2023. A small, fast, multithreaded engine and server with memory and disk tables, LOBs, transaction isolation, multiversion concurrency and ACID.

A free and open source manga reader server that runs extensions built for Tachiyomi. Suwayomi is an independent Tachiyomi compatible software and is not a Fork of Tachiyomi. Suwayomi-Server is as multi-platform as you can get. Any platform that runs java and/or has a modern browser can run it. This includes Windows, Linux, macOS, chrome OS, etc. Follow Downloading and Running the app for installation instructions.

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. 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, and package namespace as well as the intended Java version.

Reactor Netty offers non-blocking and backpressure-ready TCP/HTTP/UDP/QUIC clients & servers based on Netty framework. With Gradle from repo.spring.io or Maven Central repositories (stable releases only). Reactor is a fourth-generation reactive library, based on the Reactive Streams specification, for building non-blocking applications on the JVM. Reactor is fully non-blocking and provides efficient demand management. It directly interacts with Java's functional API, CompletableFuture, Stream, and Duration. Reactor offers two reactive and composable APIs, Flux [N] and Mono [0|1], which extensively implement Reactive Extensions. Well-suited for a microservices architecture, Reactor offers backpressure-ready network engines for HTTP (including Websockets), TCP, and UDP.

Winstone is a Java servlet container (spec v2.5) that aims at being light, fast and reliable. It requires no configuration files, and is extremely simple to use.

http-kit is a minimalist, event-driven, high-performance Clojure HTTP server/client library with WebSocket and asynchronous support. A simple, high-performance event-driven HTTP client+server for Clojure. HTTP Kit is an (almost) drop-in replacement for the standard Ring Jetty adapter. So you can use it with all your current libraries (e.g. Compojure) and middleware. Using an event-driven architecture like Nginx, HTTP-kit is very, very fast. It comfortably handles tens of thousands of requests/sec on even midrange hardware. Here is another test about how it stacks up with others. It's not only fast, but efficient! Each connection costs nothing but a few kB of memory. RAM usage grows O(n) with connections. Written from the ground-up to be lean, the entire client/server is available as a single ~90kB JAR with zero dependencies and ~3k lines of (mostly Java) code. Synchronous is simple. Asynchronous is fast & flexible.

Takes is a true object-oriented and immutable Java8 web development framework. Pay attention that UTF-8 encoding is set on the command line. The entire framework relies on your default Java encoding, which is not necessarily UTF-8 by default. To be sure, always set it on the command line with file.encoding Java argument. We decided not to hard-code "UTF-8" in our code mostly because this would be against the entire idea of Java localization, according to which a user always should have a choice of encoding and language selection. We're using Charset.defaultCharset() everywhere in the code. Essential part of Bigger Example is Front interface. It's encapsulates server's back-end and used to start an instance, which will accept requests and return results. FtBasic, which is a basic front, implements that interface.

JETTY HAS MOVED TO ECLIPSE!!!! The latest releases of Jetty are hosted from http://eclipse.org/jetty. Jetty is an open-source project providing a HTTP server, HTTP client and javax.servlet container.

Feign is a Java to HTTP client binder that was built primarily to make writing Java http clients easier. Inspired by previous projects Retrofit, JAXRS-2.0 and WebSocket, Feign was designed to reduce the complexity that is often involved in binding the Denominator uniformly to HTTP APIs, no matter the ReSTfulness. Feign works by processing annotations into a templatized request, to which arguments are applied in a straightforward manner before output. While it may only support text-based APIs, it simplifies system aspects dramatically and makes it much easier to unit test your conversions. Feign makes use of great tools like Jersey and CXF for writing Java clients for ReST or SOAP services. It also lets you write your own code on top of http libraries, and connects your code to http APIs with little overhead.

Milkman is heavily inspired by Postman. But I got sick of all those electron-based applications that need ages and loads of memory to start up. Therefore, this is a JavaFx-based workbench for crafting requests/responses. It is not limited to e.g. HTTP (or more specifically rest) requests. Due to nearly everything being a plugin, other things are possible, like database requests or GRPC, GraphQl, etc. Request-types (e.g. Http Request), request-aspects (e.g. Headers, Body, etc), editors for request aspects (e.g. table-based editors for headers), importers, whatever it is, you can extend it. The core application only handles Workspaces with Environments, Collections, Requests, and their aspects. Several plugins are provided already that extend the core application to be a replacement for postman. Crafting and Executing Http/Rest requests with json highlighting. Support Proxy-server configuration and SSE.

NanoHTTPD is a light-weight HTTP server designed for embedding in other applications, released under a Modified BSD licence. It is being developed at Github and uses Apache Maven for builds & unit testing. Nanolets are like servlets only that they have a extremely low profile. They offer an easy to use system for a more complex server application. We are currently in the process of stabilizing NanoHTTPD from the many pull requests and feature requests that were integrated over the last few months. The next release will come soon, and there will not be any more "intended" major changes before the next release. If you want to use the bleeding edge version, you can clone it from Github, or get it from sonatype.org (see "Maven dependencies / Living on the edge" below). Fully functional HTTP(s) server consisting of one (1) Java file, ready to be customized/inherited for your own project. Simple examples on how to customize NanoHTTPD.

Proxyee is a JAVA-written HTTP proxy server library that supports HTTP, HTTPS, and WebSocket protocols, and supports MITM (Man-in-the-middle), which can capture and tamper with HTTP, and HTTPS packets. The CA certificate (src/resources/ca.crt) from the project needs to be imported to a trusted root certificate authority. The CA certificate (src/resources/ca.crt) from the project needs to be imported to a trusted root certificate authority. You can use the CertDownIntercept interceptor to enable the web certificate download feature.

!! PJL Compressing Filter is renamed to ziplet and hosted on github now!! See here: https://github.com/ziplet/ziplet A J2EE servlet filter which compresses data written to the response. It supports several algorithms (gzip, deflate, etc.) and emphasizes minimal memory usage and high throughput. Also provides detailed performance stats. Feel free to fork pjl-comp-filter on Github: https://github.com/ziplet/ziplet

Jcrontab is a scheduler written in java. Jcrontab is designed to be extended and integrated with any project. Reads and stores the tasks to execute in a file, a database or an EJB and provides a basic web UI.

TJWS is an Open Source HTTP Server and Servlet container written in 100% Java. It's designed to be a light weight, high performing, secure, embeddable, extensible and flexible. Very small footprinted (~100K), CGI, J2EE/JSP compatible. Servlet spec 3.1

Pi3Web is a multithreaded, highly configurable multiple platform HTTP 1.0/1.1 web server written in C++. Pi3Web 2.0 supports among other things CGI, FCGI, Win-CGI, SSI, directory indexing, SSL, embedded perl, PHP4, Servlets, JSP and XSLT.

The goal of Simple is to bring the power of simplicity to the world of server side Java. The primary focus of the project is to provide a truly embeddable Java based HTTP engine capable of handling enormous loads. Simple provides a truly asynchronous service model, request completion is driven using an internal, transparent, monitoring system.

FOXY is a filtering web proxy. Originally designed to provide device-independent access to the World Wide Web, it may also be used for HTTP-filtering, extraction and reauthoring of existing web content or as security device against web based attacks.

WWW XML+XSLT Content management system on J2SE with Tomcat and SQL-92 compatiblity database (like free MySQL or Oracle). Supports many sites, many groups, many users. XML-definition of content types, security system. Created with Apache Avalon.

LOGames is a project that aims e-learning game development based on Learning Object Technology. LOGames are built up an existents patterns , like SCORM (Shared Content Object Model) and DCC (Digital Content Component), using InfraBig infrastructure.

EasyTomcat supports you using Apache Tomcat and MySQL. You can launch, stop and configure Tomcat and MySQL easily and particularly you don't need any special knowledge to use it. You can monitor the servers and view statistics of important properties.

HttpBridge is a web http proxy, also called CGI-proxy. It is implemented by Java Servlets. It allows designated family members, friends, and co-workers who are behind a firewall or in the countries where internet is restricted to access liberal internet.

JavaTunnel is a java, free, tunneling program. It can function in two ways: 1 It can open TCP/IP tunnel between two computers, using HTTP as a transport(not yet). 2 It can open a connection directly, witht he help of a SSL-HTTP proxy(avaible now).

The Waterken Server is a platform for building Java applications that use eventual control flow operations, such as asynchronous invocation, to communicate both within the application and across the network to other HTTP-based software.