Eclipse Grizzly Explained

Grizzly web server framework has been designed to help developers to take advantage of the Java non-blocking I/O (NIO) API. Grizzly's goal is to help developers to build scalable and robust servers using NIO as well as offering extended framework components: web framework (HTTP/S), WebSocket, Comet.^[1]

Overview

The Core Framework of Grizzly includes

• Memory Management
• I/O Strategies
• Transports and Connections
• FilterChain and Filters
• Core Configuration
• Port Unification
• JMX Monitoring^[2]

HTTP components include

• Core HTTP Framework
• HTTP Server Framework
• HTTP Server Framework Extras
• Comet
• JAXWS
• WebSockets
• AJP
• SPDY

External links

• • Eclipse Grizzly project as a part of Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Project Eclipse Grizzly.
2. Web site: Chapter 23. Monitoring and Diagnostics.