SECTION: 200-General TITLE: SpecCompliant QUESTION: Is Jetty Compliant?
Jetty is guided by RFC and the JCP specifications and aims for total compliance. The actual versions supported by various versions of Jetty are indicated on the download page.
There is no formal tests available for RFC compliance, but Jetty contains a reasonable test suite against RFC2616.
With Jetty's integration into the apache geronio application server, it has undergone J2EE 1.4 compliance testing against the official TCK. A certifified compliant version will be available via that project. Jetty on it's own cannot be called compliant, as it lacks some of the full J2EE integration features and the project is not a J2EE licensee.
Some parts of the J2EE compliance are considered not in the best interest of performance and/or good design and we have this made them optional and turned off by default:
HttpContext.setClassLoaderJava2Compliant(false)
and an example
of this is in jetty.xml
WebApplicationConfigurationClassNames
in jetty.xml.