I got tired of heavyweight frameworks, so I built my own web server in Java Most Java web projects start with Spring Boot. You add the dependency, and suddenly you have an entire ecosystem loaded into memory before your first route is even registered. For a lot of use cases that's totally fine. But I wanted something I could drop a JAR into a folder, double-click, and have a running web server in under three seconds — no config ceremony, no classpath drama. So I built Aurelius . What is it? Aurelius is a lightweight, minimalist Java web server designed for developers who want to get a site or a small API running without pulling in a full framework. It runs on Java 8+, ships as a single executable JAR (or .exe on Windows), and is built on top of Netty for the networking layer. The core idea: drop the JAR in a folder, launch it, put your HTML files in the right place, and you have a running server. That's it.…