In the past couple of years, interest in Jetty has surged. Jetty is an open
source Java-based web and application server and servlet container, but what
else do you know about it? To commemorate the 12th anniversary of Jetty, here
are 12 things that might surprise you:
1. Jetty was originally written as an issue tracker application.
1995 - America was in a media frenzy over the O.J. Simpson murder trial;
Microsoft had released Windows 95; and at Mort Bay Consulting Limited in
Australia, Greg Wilkins created what was possibly the first Java web
application, an issue tracking system served over HTTP from a Java server. It
soon became apparent that there was a lot more interest in the HTTP server
within the issue tracking application than in the application itself. By
1996,... (more)