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Jetty supports both a client and a server implementation for the HTTP/2 protocol as defined by RFC 7540.
The requirements for running HTTP/2 are JDK 8 or greater, and typically also ALPN support (see Chapter 15, Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN)).
A server deployed over TLS (SSL) normally advertises the HTTP/2 protocol via the TLS extension Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN).
Important
To use HTTP/2 in Jetty via a TLS connector you need to add the ALPN boot jar in the boot classpath. This is done automatically when using the Jetty distribution’s start.jar module system, but must be configured directly otherwise.
The Jetty HTTP/2 implementation consists of the following sub-projects (each producing a jar file):
http2-common: Contains the HTTP/2 API and a partial implementation shared across other modules.http2-hpack: Contains the HTTP/2 HPACK implementation for HTTP header compression.http2-server: Provides the server-side implementation of HTTP/2.http2-client: Provides the implementation of HTTP/2 client with a low level HTTP/2 API, dealing with HTTP/2 streams, frames, etc.http2-http-client-transport: Provides the implementation of the HTTP/2 transport for HttpClient (see Chapter 22, HTTP Client).
Applications can use the higher level API provided by HttpClient to send HTTP requests and receive HTTP responses, and the HTTP/2 transport will take care of converting them in HTTP/2 format (see also this blog entry).