Lightweight Webservice producing in Java (without an application server)

Question

Is there any Java library allowing to build a simple standalone webservice server without any application server framework?

Joachim Sauer · Accepted Answer · 2009-02-03T14:48:18.260

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Java 6 contains JAX-WS, which makes it very easy to host a web service in a stand-alone application:

javax.xml.ws.Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:8000/myService/", myServiceImplementation);

edited Feb 03 '09 at 14:48

answered Feb 03 '09 at 14:04

Joachim Sauer

That's pretty cool, but is there a servlet equivalent, so I can run without a application server? – ggb667 Apr 17 '14 at 14:01
@GGB667: that's pretty much an entirely separate question, please ask that as a separate question (or better yet: search for it, I wouldn't be surprised if SO already had an answer for that). – Joachim Sauer Apr 18 '14 at 19:30
I couldn't find a nice one-liner like that, but found various tools that can be combined to create one with some work, nothing that elegant. : – ggb667 Apr 30 '14 at 21:16
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/tutorials/ws-jse/ – Vijay Apr 12 '15 at 05:19
I've seen your answer, tried it, but gut stuck reading details of the request, could you please have a look here http://stackoverflow.com/q/37256836/4142984 to clear my confusion or to add more info? Thanks in advance! – Gyro Gearloose May 17 '16 at 16:36

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '09 at 14:13

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answered Feb 03 '09 at 14:13

Vinze

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 03 '09 at 15:00

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Simple is the fastest and lightest NIO web server you will find in the Java world. About twice as fast as Jetty and a quarter the size.

answered Feb 03 '09 at 15:00

ng.

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 05 '15 at 16:37

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Jetty can be run embedded in a java application. Have a look at it.

edited Feb 05 '15 at 16:37

erdemlal

answered Feb 03 '09 at 14:42

maskefjes

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