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by meddlepal 3090 days ago
Yea, the built-in JDK HTTP server is pretty poor, but I don't think I've ever run across it in the wild thankfully.

> There is no way to configure timeouts

They're configured by properties if I recall.

> Filters have to be added to each handler separately, by mucking with its filter list

I personally prefer the explicitness of this.

As for the rest... I think a lot of these issues stem from the fact it's an old, not particularly well-known API in the JDK.