Tomcat vs. Jetty vs. Undertow: Comparison of Spring Boot Embedded Servlet Containers

原文地址：https://examples.javacodegeeks.com/enterprise-java/spring/tomcat-vs-jetty-vs-undertow-comparison-of-spring-boot-embedded-servlet-containers/

With the rise in popularity of micro services we have seen a similar rise in popularity of applications with embedded servlet containers. Spring boot is a Java based framework that supports application services. It runs as a standalone jar with an embedded servlet container or as a WAR file inside a container.

In this example, we will focus on the standalone jar with embedded servlet containers. The framework supports three different types of embedded servlet containers: Tomcat (default), Jetty and Undertow. We will compare the three and look at differences in properties, settings, performance and memory. Keep in mind that this example is analyzing the default configuration. There are many ways to optimize the performance or memory usage including to customize the auto configuration and component scanning.

We used Eclipse Neon, Java 8, Maven 3.3.9, Spring 1.4.3, Tomcat 8.5.6, Jetty 9.3.14 and Undertow 1.3.24.

Table Of Contents

1. Setup Spring Boot Application

2. Tomcat

3. Jetty

4. Undertow

5. Performance and Load

5.1. Measure Performance

5.2. Measure Memory

6. Comparison

7. Conclusion

8. Download the Source Code

1. Setup Spring Boot Application

We will use Maven to setup a new project in Eclipse with the appropriate dependencies. We will use the starter parent for this example but the dependencies in a production application will likely be altered to streamline, optimize or customize.

1.1 Setup Spring Boot Dependencies

The default embedded servlet container is Tomcat. This version of Spring Web 1.4.3 brings in Tomcat version 8.5.6.

pom.xml

01

<parent>

02	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

03	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>

04	<version>1.4.3.RELEASE</version>

05

</parent>

06

07	<dependencies>

08	<!-- TOMCAT -->

09	<dependency>

10	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

11	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>

12	</dependency>

13	</dependencies>

1.2 Setup Spring Boot Main Application and Controllers

To setup the Spring Boot application you include the @SpringBootApplication annotation in your Main class. The @SpringBootApplication annotation brings in @SpringBootConfiguration, @EnableAutoConfiguration and @ComponentScanannotations.

Application.java

1	@SpringBootApplication

2	@ConfigurationProperties

3	public class Application {

4	public static void main(String[] args) {

5	SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);

6

}

You may choose to eliminate this annotation and add the @SpringBootConfiguration alone or to another class that allows you to customize the configuration. The @ComponentScan will scan your application for items like the @Controller you will need to setup a RESTful service. The following controller will return a simple “Hello World” string from a HTTP GET request. We have also included in the bundled example another endpoint mapping that returns a complex object type.

SampleController.java

01	@Controller

02	public class SampleController {

03

04	@Autowired

05	private ResourceLoader resourceLoader;

06

07	@RequestMapping("/")

08	@ResponseBody

09	public String home() {

10	return "Hello World!";

11

}

1.3 Key Configuration Parameters

The default properties for all the embedded servlet containers are the same. Some of the most important properties to consider are the properties for configuring startup information like ports and application name, TSL, access logs, compression and many more.

For example, to configure SSL add the following to key value pairs to the application.properties.

application.properties

1	server.port=8443

2	server.ssl.key-store=classpath:keystore.jks

3	server.ssl.key-store-password=secret

4	server.ssl.key-password=another-secret

1.4 How to Find Additional Parameters

To explore the parameters for Spring boot applications you can add the Spring actuator dependency and the @ConfigurationProperties annotation to your Main class. You then visit the /configprops endpoint on your application to get a list of the available properties.

Application.java

1	@SpringBootApplication

2	@ConfigurationProperties

3	public class Application {

pom.xml

1	<dependency>

2	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

3	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>

4	</dependency>

1	http://localhost:8080/jcg/service/configprops

1.5 Change version of Embedded Servlet Containers

The embedded servlet container versions are defined in the following parent dependency from the pom. You can change the version of the embedded servlet container by explicitly including the dependency and identifying a new version in the pom. We will show you how in the examples below.

pom.xml

1	<dependency>

2	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

3	<artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>

4	<version>1.3.7.RELEASE</version>

5	</dependency>

2. Tomcat

As Tomcat is the default embedded servlet container there is nothing you need to do to the default implementation to use Tomcat. You can change the version of Tomcat you are using or change properties in the pom.xml or application.properties files.

2.2 Change Version of Tomcat

pom.xml

01	<properties><tomcat.version>8.5.6</tomcat.version></properties>

02

03	<dependency>

04	<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>

05	<artifactId>tomcat-embed-core</artifactId>

06	<version>${tomcat.version}</version>

07	</dependency>

08	<dependency>

09	<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>

10	<artifactId>tomcat-embed-el</artifactId>

11	<version>${tomcat.version}</version>

12	</dependency>

13	<dependency>

14	<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>

15	<artifactId>tomcat-embed-websocket</artifactId>

16	<version>${tomcat.version}</version>

17	</dependency>

3. Jetty

To change the embedded servlet container to Jetty you need to edit the pom file to remove the Tomcat dependency and add Jetty.

3.1 Change to Jetty (version 9.3.14)

pom.xml

01	<dependency>

02	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

03	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>

04	<exclusions>

05	<exclusion>

06	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

07	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>

08	</exclusion>

09	</exclusions>

10	</dependency>

11	<dependency>

12	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

13	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jetty</artifactId>

14	</dependency>

4. Undertow

To change the embedded servlet container to Undertow you need to edit the pom file to remove the Tomcat dependency and add Undertow.

4.1 Change to Undertow (version 1.3.24 final)

Notice the undertow version included in the spring boot starter is incorrect, referring to 1.3.25. You’ll need to change it to 1.3.24.Final for this to work at the time of this article.

pom.xml

01	<dependency>

02	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

03	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>

04	<exclusions>

05	<exclusion>

06	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

07	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>

08	</exclusion>

09	</exclusions>

10	</dependency>

11	<dependency>

12	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

13	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-undertow</artifactId>

14	</dependency>

15	<dependency>

16	<groupId>io.undertow</groupId>

17	<artifactId>undertow-core</artifactId>

18	<version>1.3.24.Final</version>

19	</dependency>

20	<dependency>

21	<groupId>io.undertow</groupId>

22	<artifactId>undertow-servlet</artifactId>

23	<version>1.3.24.Final</version>

24	</dependency>

5. Performance and Load

In this example, we will analyze both the peformance of HTTP requests and the memory footprint at startup of all three embedded servlet containers. We used JMeter to measure performance by simulating load and JVisualVM to look at the memory footprint.

5.1 Measure Performance

In this example, we will analyze both the peformance of simple RESTFul GET requests that return a string and more complex GET requests that return complex JSON objects. JMeter is the tool used to measure the performance of the the three different types of containers. The key to setting up this test was establishing thread groups with the appropriate load, a counter to dynamically update the input to the API and report viewers to display or aggregate the results. For the simple string examples, we used a thread group with 1000 threads that would loop 3 times through the sequence. It also used a ramp up time of 10 seconds. For the complex object examples, we used the same parameters but did not loop.

JMeter Tomcat Thread Group

JMeter Tomcat Summary Report

5.1.1 Tomcat

5.1.1.1 Simple String

Label	# Samples	Average	Min	Max	Std. Dev.	Error %	Throughput	Received KB/sec	Sent KB/sec	Avg. Bytes
Startup	3000	7	1	549	35.78374361	0	293.8583603	55.95935572	55.67238466	195
Others	3000	1	0	45	1.359661682	0	287.8802418	54.82094449	54.53981144	195
Others	3000	1	0	24	1.155032275	0	292.1129503	55.62697785	55.3417113	195

5.1.1.2 Complex Object with Dynamic Data

Label	# Samples	Average	Min	Max	Std. Dev.	Error %	Throughput	Received KB/sec	Sent KB/sec	Avg. Bytes
Startup	1000	114	3	1601	322.8671905	0	97.68486861	202.3335999	19.93763432	2121
Others	1000	3	2	17	1.328216473	0	97.88566954	202.7495167	19.9786181	2121
Others	1000	2	1	16	1.110529603	0	98.52216749	204.0678879	20.10852833	2121
Others	1000	2	1	21	1.344498419	0	98.53187506	204.0879951	20.11050966	2121

5.1.2 Jetty

5.1.2.1 Simple Object

Label	# Samples	Average	Min	Max	Std. Dev.	Error %	Throughput	Received KB/sec	Sent KB/sec	Avg. Bytes
Startup	3000	7	0	561	40.13705065	0	291.5168594	56.0828333	55.22878	197
Others	3000	1	0	21	1.058925031	0	293.5995302	56.48350338	55.6233485	197
Others	3000	1	0	21	0.926034317	0	294.3485086	56.62759395	55.7652448	197

5.1.2.2 Complex Object with Dynamic Data

Label	# Samples	Average	Min	Max	Std. Dev.	Error %	Throughput	Received KB/sec	Sent KB/sec	Avg. Bytes
Startup	1000	110	3	1397	278.7961107	0	98.13542689	203.3626717	19.93375859	2122
Others	1000	3	2	20	1.500210319	0	98.48335631	204.0836739	20.00443175	2122
Others	1000	3	2	45	2.729377218	0	98.29942003	203.7025091	19.96706969	2122

5.1.3 Undertow

5.1.3.1 Simple Object

Label	# Samples	Average	Min	Max	Std. Dev.	Error %	Throughput	Received KB/sec	Sent KB/sec	Avg. Bytes
Startup	3000	6	0	451	31.6188702	0	295.6830278	63.81440346	56.01807363	221
Others	3000	1	0	22	1.255447862	0	292.7400468	63.17924839	55.46051669	221
Others	3000	1	0	18	1.559477975	0	294.3773918	63.53262069	55.77071681	221

5.1.3.2 Complex Object with Dynamic Data

Label	# Samples	Average	Min	Max	Std. Dev.	Error %	Throughput	Received KB/sec	Sent KB/sec	Avg. Bytes
Startup	1000	70	3	1114	197.1333241	0	97.059109	203.3969361	19.62044201	2145.893
Startup	1000	42	3	852	132.6443576	0	98.02960494	205.6324135	20.00799554	2148
Others	1000	3	2	19	1.293570253	0	98.55129595	206.6305004	20.01823199	2147
Others	1000	2	2	27	1.659250132	0	98.74592673	207.0385788	20.05776637	2147
Others	1000	2	1	17	1.260904041	0	98.28975821	206.0821395	19.96510714	2147

5.2 Measure Memory

To measure the memory of each embedded servlet container we looked at the memory usage on startup. JVisualVM is a tool provided with the Java Development Kit for visualizing the memory and footprint of java applications. We used this tool to show the initial startup impact of each of the three embedded servlet containers. The heap size and thread counts are key in analyzing this initial footprint. The ten threads that are common to all three containers include: JMX server connection timeout, RMI Scheduler, RMI TCP Connection (2), RMI TCP Accept, Attach Listener, DestroyJavaVM, Signal Dispatcher, Finalizer and Reference Handler.

JVisualVM Report

5.2.2 Tomcat

Heap Size: 697,827,328 B
Used: 124,260,976 B
Max: 2,147,483,648 B

Threads: 17 Live, 22 Started

5.2.3 Jetty

Heap Size: 628,621,312 B
Used: 311,476,776 B
Max: 2,147,483,648 B

Threads: 19 Live, 22 Started

5.2.4 Undertow

Heap Size: 630,718,464 B
Used: 114,599,536 B
Max: 2,147,483,648 B

Threads: 17 Live, 20 Started

6. Compare

6.1 Performance

While all three of the embedded servlet containers had similar performance under the parameters used in this example, Undertow seems to have the best performance with Tomcat and Jetty close behind. The memory footprint of Jetty on startup was the largest using 311 MB. Tomcat and Undertow had similarly low initial footprints around 120 MB with Undertow coming in the lowest at 114 MB. The key difference in the response headers is that Undertow includes HTTP Persistent connections by default. This header will be used in clients that support persistent connections to optimize performance by reusing connection details.

6.1.1 Tomcat Response Headers

1	Content-Type →application/json;charset=UTF-8

2	Date →Mon, 09 Jan 2017 02:23:26 GMT

3	Transfer-Encoding →chunked

4	X-Application-Context →JcgSpringBootContainers:# Application index.

6.1.2 Jetty Response Headers

1	Content-Type →application/json;charset=UTF-8

2	Date →Mon, 09 Jan 2017 02:29:21 GMT

3	Transfer-Encoding →chunked

4	X-Application-Context →JcgSpringBootContainers:# Application index.

6.1.3 Undertow Response Headers

1	Connection →keep-alive

2	Content-Type →application/json;charset=UTF-8

3	Date →Mon, 09 Jan 2017 02:20:25 GMT

4	Transfer-Encoding →chunked

5	X-Application-Context →JcgSpringBootContainers:# Application index.

7. Conclusion

The numbers indicate that Undertow is the best in performance and memory usage. It is encouraging to see that Undertow is embracing the latest capabilities and defaulting to persistent connections. The numbers do not indicate a dramatic difference in performance based on the load used in this example but I would imagine that they would scale and that if performance is the most important factor Undertow is the right match for your application. It is also reasonable to think that an organization may favor an embedded servlet container because of familiarity with it’s capabilities. Many times the defaults settings will have to change because of application requirements that include performance, memory usage and functionality.

8. Download the Source Code

Here we compared three types of embedded servlet containers you can include in a Spring Boot Application.

Download
You can download the Eclipse project here: JcgSpringBootContainers