I'm wondering about the downsides of each servers in respect to a production environment. Did anyone have big problems with one of the features? Performance, etc. I also quickly took a look at the new Glassfish, does it match up the simple servlet containers (it seems to have a good management interface at least)?
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I love Jetty for its low maintenance cost. It's just unpack and it's ready to roll. Tomcat is a bit high maintenance, requires more configuration and it's heavier. Besides, Jetty's continuations are very cool.
EDIT: In 2013, there are reports that Tomcat has gotten easier. See comments. I haven't verified that.
I like how Jetty can be embedded in an application so that it doesn't need to run in a web container (Hudson and Nexus are two apps that can run in this mode). Can Tomcat do this?
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