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Is Grizzly a web server (NIO based) or a framework

From the official documentation it seems to me that Grizzly is a NIO based framework using which we can build scalable web-servers. However, I also realize that Grizzly is used as a HTTP Connector (front-end) in Glassfish (v3 to be specific).

If Glassfish is using it as a connector, is it custom written using the exposed API's or is there a out of box reference implementation. Can I also run Grizzly as a standalone webserver?

The Glassfish- Grizzly integration documentation is pretty limited on this. Also, if there is a link which explains be diagrammatically the architecture of how Grizzly fit in to the Glassfish architecture (message flow) please share.

Solution

  • The project Grizzly is NIO framework with an HTTP server module [1] and you don't need Glassfish to run Grizzly HTTP server.

    [1] https://grizzly.java.net/httpserverframework.html