simple HTTP server in Java using only Java SE API

Question

Is there a way to create a very basic HTTP server (supporting only GET/POST) in Java using just the Java SE API, without writing code to manually parse HTTP requests and man

Answer 1

I can strongly recommend looking into Simple, especially if you don't need Servlet capabilities but simply access to the request/reponse objects. If you need REST you can put Jersey on top of it, if you need to output HTML or similar there's Freemarker. I really love what you can do with this combination, and there is relatively little API to learn.