Java Web Server

A web server written from scratch in Java.

Note: This is more of an exploratory project to understand how web servers work.

Features

At the moment JWS only supports retrieving html documents in the default resources/html directory on port 8080.

Building the project with gradle and then running will start the server at 127.0.0.1:8080. Visiting http://127.0.0.1:8080/ in a browser you should see the following:

Welcome!

Road-map

• Add unit tests
• Add logging
• Add support for file types other than html:
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • Images
• Add support for POST requests
• Add cookie support
• Add configuration support:
  • Port number
  • Resource directory
  • Log directory
  • Routes (?)
• Add a Threadpool to deal with requests as they arrive
• Add caching for repeated requests
• Add a templating engine (?)