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On whole, the key difference between Tomcat and Jetty is the fact that Apache Tomcat places great stress on being up to date with the latest specification, while Eclipse Jetty prioritizes the needs of their user community which tends to result on an emphasis on performance.
The Spring Boot starters ( spring-boot-starter-web in particular) use Tomcat as an embedded container by default. You need to exclude those dependencies and include the Jetty one instead.
Jetty provides a web server and servlet container, additionally providing support for HTTP/2, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations. These components are open source and are freely available for commercial use and distribution.
Conclusion. Undertow definitely had impressive results in those tests! Compared to Tomcat, it proved to start up faster, handle more load, and also had a far more stable throughput.
I love Jetty for its low maintenance cost. It's just unpack and it's ready to roll. Tomcat is a bit high maintenance, requires more configuration and it's heavier. Besides, Jetty's continuations are very cool.
EDIT: In 2013, there are reports that Tomcat has gotten easier. See comments. I haven't verified that.
I think tomcat is more disscussed and supported by application, Jetty is portable and can be embedded in an application. and Jetty has good continuations.
I like how Jetty can be embedded in an application so that it doesn't need to run in a web container (Hudson and Nexus are two apps that can run in this mode). Can Tomcat do this?
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