W E B   I N T E G R A T I O N  

Chapter  

13 

13. Web 

Integration 

How to Serve Web Content by Scott Stark and Jan Bartel 

JBoss supports embedding of web containers through abstract MBean. Two popular servlet 

containers have embedded services bundled with JBoss. The Jetty 4.x servlet container is 

included as the default servlet container in the standard JBoss 3.0 distribution. A separate 

JBoss/Tomcat 4.x distribution includes an embedded version of Tomcat 4.0.3. This chapter 

provides the basic configuration details of the Jetty and Tomcat services. For the full details 

of these services as well as the servlet container integration interface see the full JBoss 3.0 

documentation. 

Configuring Jetty 

What is Jetty 

Jetty is a pure Java web server and servlet container compliant to the HTTP1.1,  Servlet 2.3 

& JSP 1.2 specifications developed by 

Mort Bay Consulting 

(http://www.mortbay.com)

. It has been designed to be fast, lightweight, extensible, and 

embeddable. This section discusses the embedding of Jetty within JBoss, but for more 

general information on Jetty, visit the 

Jetty website (http://jetty.mortbay.org).

Integration with JBoss 

Jetty is fully integrated with the JBoss environment in terms of: 

In JVM optimized calls. 

The overhead of RMI is avoided when the servlet and EJB containers are run in the same 

JVM. 

Implementing a web container service 

The Jetty integration extends the 

org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer

 class to 

enable Jetty to conform to the standard JBoss web container service interface. This allows 

the Jetty Service to be stopped and restarted, to hot deploy webapps and for those 

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