Jetty vs. Tomcat?

Hi,
I was wondering, is there any difference from programmer's point of view between Jetty and
Tomcat as servlet containers? We have an IIS server here, and that's not likely to change any time
soon, unless for major reasons. I've written servlets with Tomcat, but I don't know what is it like
to use Jetty - since it hasn't been installed yet. (As you might have guessed I don't hold the
needed administrative rights:)
So I'm just curious, how are these two different for me to use, as a programmer?
I didn't manage to find resources on this on the web, though there must be something, somewhere, no?
Is there some other servlet container I should consider?
Matilda
(greetings from Finland!)

Ok, thanks for your reply!
So the only visible difference is which API I can use. I found
a couple of discussions on their relative performance, and there
indeed seems to be plenty of opinions around. However there will
be only a couple of hundred hits on our servlets a month, so I would
imagine either would perform well enough.
Matilda

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