Jetty 9 is the most recent version of Jetty and has a great many improvements over the previous versions. One improvement being this documentation which is focused on Jetty 9. While many people continue to use older versions of Jetty we generally recommend using Jetty 9 as it represents the version of Jetty that we will actively maintain and improve over the next few years.
Table 1.1. Jetty Versions
Version | Year | Home | JVM | Protocols | Servlet | JSP | Status |
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9 | 2012 | Eclipse | 1.7 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616, WebSocket RFC 6455, SPDY v3 | 3.0 (3.1 branch) | 2.1 | Milestone |
8 | 2009- | Eclipse/Codehaus | 1.6 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616, WebSocket RFC 6455, SPDY v3 | 3.0 | 2.1 | Stable |
7 | 2008- | Eclipse/Codehaus | 1.5 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616, WebSocket RFC 6455, SPDY v3 | 2.5 | 2.1 | Stable |
6 | 2006-2010 | Codehaus | 1.4-1.5 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.5 | 2.0 | Mature |
5 | 2003-2009 | Sourceforge | 1.2-1.5 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.4 | 2.0 | Deprecated |
4 | 2001-2006 | Sourceforge | 1.2, J2ME | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.3 | 1.2 | Ancient |
3 | 1999-2002 | Sourceforge | 1.2 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2068 | 2.2 | 1.1 | Fossilized |
2 | 1998-2000 | Mortbay | 1.1 | HTTP/1.0 RFC1945 | 2.1 | 1.0 | Legendary |
1 | 1995-1998 | Mortbay | 1.0 | HTTP/1.0 RFC1945 | - | - | Mythical |