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What exactly is the difference? I’ve been using Jetty 8.0.0 lately and when I try the distribution download I cannot get neither WebSockets nor Servlet 3.0 @WebServlet annotation to work. If I use hightide, it just works.
What is the point of the distribution?
I’m interested in the difference too, and what’s online is confusing. Here’s Jesse McConnell’s ( https://stackoverflow.com/users/1185262/jesse-mcconnell ) answer to my just-posted question on the [jetty-users] mailing list ( http://jetty.4.n6.nabble.com/jetty-users-jetty-versions-tt3675449.html ):
I did a lot of digging around before I got that answer, so I’ll include the results below for reference. I hope this helps.
Description from eclipse.org: The Jetty Hightide application server is a distribution of the jetty Web Server assembled at codehaus with additional services like JNDI, XA & JDBC preconfigured. For jetty-hightide-6 this is an optimized, patched rebuild of jetty-6, while for jetty-hightide-7 it is distribution based on the standard jetty-7 artifacts combined with other third party integrations. — http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/about.php
Description from docs.codehaus.org: Hightide is an optimized, versioned distribution of the Jetty open source web container. It comes pre-integrated with a number of services usually only found in J2EE application servers, or which you would otherwise have to craft together yourself: JNDI, an XA transaction service, a JMS message fabric, and a JDBC accessible database. Thanks to Jetty’s light weight, pluggable architecture, Hightide allows you to easily choose which of these services you want to use, or even replace them with others. — http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Hightide+Documentation
FAQ: “What’s the difference between Jetty from Mort Bay, Codehaus and/or Eclipse?” at wiki.eclipse.org: The latest releases of core jetty-7 and later are available from Eclipse, which use the org.eclipse.jetty packaging. For versions 6 of Jetty, plus some jetty-7 components such as RPMs, Debs, Hightide, use codehaus, which uses the org.mortbay packaging. — http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/FAQ
However, the contents of the two distributions (see ‘Downloads’ below) both use the o.e.j packaging, so I don’t think the answer is entirely correct.
Mentions of features at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty:
Downloads: Version numbers seem in-sync:
After a cursory look, the contents look extremely similar.