Jigsaw - W3C's Server

W3C's Java Server

Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform, providing a sample HTTP 1.1 implementation and a variety of other features on top of an advanced architecture implemented in Java. The W3C Jigsaw Activity statement explains the motivation and future plans in more detail. Jigsaw is an W3C Open Source Project, started May 1996. See the license for details.

News and Highlights:

• Released April 10th, 2007: Jigsaw 2.2.6 · Download

  Contains stability fixes as well as a few new functionnalities in the HTTP client stack.

  ... more details in the Release Notes

• Released June 8th, 2005: Jigsaw 2.2.5 · Download

  It also contains a reworked HTTP client stack and SSL code updates, an improved Digest Authentication implementation, and WebDAV interoperability improvements. Along with some stability fixes for servers with a long uptime and huge traffic.

  ... more details in the Release Notes

  UPDATE July 4th 2005: to Jigsaw 2.2.5a to fix a configuration file error

• Released November 10th, 2001: Winie 1.0.9a · Download

  Winie is a network utility to put files on the web using HTTP/1.1. The main feature of Winie is to solve the "lost update problem" by storing ETags. Winie use the client side api of Jigsaw.

  Changes:

  • Content-Language support
  • Bugs fixed

  Features are:

  • PUT, GET and DELETE files on the web
  • Version conflict detection, see "The lost update problem"
  • Retries when connection closed (like wget does)
  • Upload all files located in a directory (recursively or not)
  • Support for proxies
  • Support for metadata configuration (language, charset)

• Released November 24th 2000: Jigsaw WebDAV Package · Download

  "WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers." (webdav.org)

  This is a WebDAV implementation based on Jigsaw 2.1.2, it has been tested with cadaver, DAVExplorer and WebFolders. Go to webdav.org for a more complete list of DAV client. This package is preconfigured as a WebDAV server.

• Released June 5th 2000: Jigsaw 2.0.5 · Download
  • Servlet API Support JSDK/2.2 support
  • JSP Support
  • Image metadata extraction
  • Many bug fixes.
  • ... more details in the Release Notes

• August 17th 1999: ServerWatch's Review of Jigsaw · Jigsaw References Page

  « Jigsaw 2.0, as developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is designed to be a technology demonstration rather than a full-fledged release. It's purposely intended as a project to showcase new technologies, but in the case of Jigsaw 2.0, this Web server also ends up being more robust than the average Web server. Most importantly, though, Jigsaw serves as a useful blueprint to the future of the HTTP protocol and object-oriented Web servers. »

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