Jetty is developed as a free and open source project as part of the Eclipse Foundation.

[10] Jetty is also the server in open source projects such as Lift, Eucalyptus, OpenNMS, Red5, Hadoop and I2P.

[12][13] Jetty often provides support for Web services in an embedded Java application and it is already a component of the Eclipse IDE.

It provides support for a wide variety of specifications and protocols including JASPI, JMX, JNDI, OSGi, WebSocket, HTTP/2, and more.

[14] Jetty was started in 1995 and was hosted by MortBay, creating version 1.x and 2.x, until 2000.