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I have an application which includes a Jetty web server that we distribute to multiple user to deploy on their servers. Based on some new requirements, we need to include reverse proxy capabilities. The Jetty documentation talks about using Apache as the reverse proxy in front of Jetty. While this works, it would be much easier to just use Jetty and not have to carry around Apache. Is there any way to configure standalone Jetty as a reverse proxy?
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A traditional forward proxy server allows multiple clients to route traffic to an external network. For instance, a business may have a proxy that routes and filters employee traffic to the public Internet. A reverse proxy, on the other hand, routes traffic on behalf of multiple servers.
In addition to being a "basic" web server, and providing static and dynamic content to end-users, Apache httpd (as well as most other web servers) can also act as a reverse proxy server, also-known-as a "gateway" server.
A reverse proxy is a server that sits in front of web servers and forwards client (e.g. web browser) requests to those web servers. Reverse proxies are typically implemented to help increase security, performance, and reliability.
Sure you should be able to use the ProxyServlet which is fully async and quite customizable if needed:
http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/proxy-servlet.html
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