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An Undertow server consists of one or more XNIO worker instances, one or more connectors and a handler chain.
An Undertow server consists of one or more [[XNIO Concepts#XNIO_Worker|XNIO worker]] instances, one or more [[#Connector|connectors]] and a [[#Handler_Chain|handler chain]].


=XNIO Concepts=
=XNIO Concepts=

Revision as of 02:27, 19 January 2016

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Overview

Undertow is a web server written in Java. It provides both blocking and non-blocking APIs based on NIO. It has a composition-based architecture that allows assembling a web server combining small single purpose handlers.

Undertow is embeddable, its lifecycle is controlled by the embedding application and its configuration is controlled programmatically via API calls. Undertow is the default web server in WildFly since version 8, and in this case the configuration is exposed via XML in the server configuration file as:

        ...
        <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:undertow:3.0">
            ...
        </subsystem>
        ...

It has support for Servlet 3.1.

Artifacts

  • undertow-core
  • undertow-servlet provides support for Servlet 3.1
  • undertow-websockets-jsr provides support for the Java API for Websockets (JSR-356)

Container

There in no Undertow container. Undertow applications are assembled from Undertow handler classes and it is up to the embedding application to manage the lifecycle of all Undertow handlers.

Architecture

An Undertow server consists of one or more XNIO worker instances, one or more connectors and a handler chain.

XNIO Concepts

Connector

Request Lifecycle

HttpServerExchange

An exchange can be in blocking or non-blocking mode, and it can be put in blocking mode.

Handler

Handler Chain