I'm using Tomcat to serve my Java Servlets and it's kinda more for me. I just need to serve, Servlet Requests alone, no static content, neither JSP, etc. So I was looking for a Servlet container that can be embedded in my Application. I felt it if stripped Jetty and use it as a Servlet Container alone, it can be more scalable and occupying small memory footprint, [I don't need Jetty's 'Web Server' and other Parts]. So I've a few questions though,

  1. How do I embed Jetty in my Application Code to serve Servlet Requests alone?
  2. If I embed Jetty code in my Application Code, will I be able to easily upgrade Jetty Versions?
  3. I got the Jetty code here, if I have to embed Jetty's Servlet Container in my App, which one should I use from the source, http://git.eclipse.org/c/jetty/org.eclipse.jetty.project.git/snapshot/jetty-9.0.3.v20130506.tar.bz2 , jetty-9.0.3.v20130506/jetty-servlet or jetty-9.0.3.v20130506/jetty-servlets

I intend to serve API Requests with my Applications and I'm looking for Performance and Scalability as main constraints. And of course Servlet 3.0 support.

java servlets embedded-jetty
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