Jetty for NET world

Question

I am looking for the Jetty equivalent in the Net Framework world - managed code. Does it exist? I would like to use the library from an F#/C#/VB.net application. "Don't deploy your application in Jetty, deploy Jetty in your application."

Answer 1

How sophisticated API are you looking for? For simple tasks, I think you can get fairly far just by using the standard HttpListener type. There is an MSDN sample that encapsulates it with an F# agent (part 3) and then uses it to create a simple chat server (part 4).

The core part of the chat server looks fairly straightforward:

let handleRequest (context:HttpListenerContext) = async { 
    match context.Request.Url.LocalPath with 
    | "/post" -> 
        // Send message to the chat room
        room.SendMessage(context.Request.InputString)
    | "/chat" -> 
        // Get messages from the chat room (asynchronously!)
        let! text = room.AsyncGetContent()
        context.Response.Reply(text)
    | s ->
        // Omitted: handle file request }

A more advanced library available for F# might be Frack (An implementation of the Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN), a .NET Web Server Gateway Interface, written in F#.) This also looks very easy to use.

Answer 2

ServiceStack also runs inside a self-hosted HttpListener application in Win/.NET or Mono/Linux (in addition to an ASP.NET host).

See the self-hosted wiki page for simple examples of running ServiceStack in a C# or F# Console apps.