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Jetty vs Websphere Liberty: What are the differences?

What is Jetty? An open-source project providing an HTTP server, HTTP client, and javax.servlet container. Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. See the Jetty Powered page for more uses of Jetty.

What is Websphere Liberty? A fast, dynamic, and easy-to-use Java application server. It is very lightweight profile of WebSphere Application Server. It is a flexible and dynamic profile of WAS which enables the WAS server to deploy only required custom features instead of deploying a big set of available JEE components.

Jetty and Websphere Liberty can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.

Jetty is an open source tool with 2.59K GitHub stars and 1.42K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jetty's open source repository on GitHub.

Okta, Auto Trader, and Wix are some of the popular companies that use Jetty, whereas Websphere Liberty is used by Swedbank Corporate Lending Baltic team, EVRY Financial Services, and BNDES. Jetty has a broader approval, being mentioned in 81 company stacks & 121 developers stacks; compared to Websphere Liberty, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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      What is Jetty?

      Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. See the Jetty Powered page for more uses of Jetty.

      What is Websphere Liberty?

      It is very lightweight profile of WebSphere Application Server. It is a flexible and dynamic profile of WAS which enables the WAS server to deploy only required custom features instead of deploying a big set of available JEE components.

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      JBoss
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