Top 14 Java HTTP Server Projects

Armeria

1 7 4,994 9.6 Java

Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.
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Jetty

2 16 3,994 9.8 Java

Eclipse Jetty® - Web Container & Clients - supports HTTP/3, HTTP/2, HTTP/1, websocket, servlets, and more
Undertow

3 2 3,686 8.4 Java

High performance non-blocking webserver
Takes

4 1 859 9.3 Java

True Object-Oriented Java Web Framework without NULLs, Static Methods, Annotations, and Mutable Objects
DeepfakeHTTP

5 34 517 1.8 Java

DeepfakeHTTP is a web server that uses HTTP dumps as a source for responses.
Firefly

6 0 297 4.8 Java

Firefly is an asynchronous web framework for rapid development of high-performance web application. (by hypercube1024)
donkey

7 8 293 1.4 Java

Modern Clojure HTTP server and client built for ease of use and performance
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java-http

8 8 222 8.9 Java

A full featured, stand-alone, high-performance HTTP server and client written entirely in plain Java
rawhttp

9 2 211 5.3 Java

HTTP library to make it easy to deal with raw HTTP.
lWS

10 2 92 2.3 Java

lightweight Web Server (lWS) for Android
avaje-http

11 5 82 9.2 Java

Controller generation for Javalin, Helidon SE.
java-httpbin

12 1 49 7.8 Java

A Java-based HTTP server that lets you locally test your HTTP client, retry logic, streaming behavior, timeouts, etc. with the endpoints of httpbin.org
avaje-jex

13 3 34 9.4 Java

Web routing for the JDK Http server
amaya-core

14 1 3 8.6 Java

An amaya framework module that implements a web application and its infrastructure.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source HTTP Server projects in Java? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	Armeria	4,994
2	Jetty	3,994
3	Undertow	3,686
4	Takes	859
5	DeepfakeHTTP	517
6	Firefly	297
7	donkey	293
8	java-http	222
9	rawhttp	211
10	lWS	92
11	avaje-http	82
12	java-httpbin	49
13	avaje-jex	34
14	amaya-core	3