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  1. Jetty

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

    Multiple applications in the same JVM? Wildfly, Tomcat, Jetty.

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  3. Bouncy Castle

    Bouncy Castle Java Distribution (Mirror)

    Cryptography? Use Java Cryptography Extensions and Java Secure Socket Extensions with Bouncy Castle

  4. Weld

    Weld, including integrations for Servlet containers and Java SE, examples and documentation (by weld)

    Need only Dependency injection? Perhaps JBoss Weld, a reference CDI implementation, might interest you.

  5. Apache Tomcat

    Apache Tomcat

    Multiple applications in the same JVM? Wildfly, Tomcat, Jetty.

  6. Aeron

    Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

    Oh boy, if that's really what you're going for, you're talking low microseconds, anything slower and you'll be losing money. Also, you have to make sure the GC never triggers. Maybe look at something like Aeron

  7. rosie

    Transparent Java API for HTTP Requests and Responses (by bowbahdoe)

    I'm using straight up Jetty with a tiny wrapper on servlets https://github.com/bowbahdoe/rosie

  8. Dropwizard

    A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.

    You might like Dropwizard then.

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