Replace Servlets with Netty Based HTTP Servers

Change-Id: I3d552d4eb8c868535ca4c41cbcf7e352217b18ae
Reviewed-on: https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/1429
Tested-by: Jenkins <jenkins@fulliautomatix.ics.uci.edu>
BAD: Jenkins <jenkins@fulliautomatix.ics.uci.edu>
Integration-Tests: Jenkins <jenkins@fulliautomatix.ics.uci.edu>
Reviewed-by: Till Westmann <tillw@apache.org>
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/pom.xml b/asterixdb/asterix-app/pom.xml
index f4667d0..77ca6ef 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/pom.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/pom.xml
@@ -32,12 +32,10 @@
       <comments>A business-friendly OSS license</comments>
     </license>
   </licenses>
-
   <properties>
     <appendedResourcesDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/appended-resources</appendedResourcesDirectory>
     <sonar.sources>pom.xml,src/main/java,src/main/resources</sonar.sources>
   </properties>
-
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
@@ -62,7 +60,6 @@
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
-
         <configuration>
           <!--
               If you'd like to tell the plugin where your .git directory is,
@@ -80,7 +77,6 @@
                at source assembly time) is used in this case -->
           <failOnNoGitDirectory>false</failOnNoGitDirectory>
         </configuration>
-
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -165,33 +161,33 @@
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
     <pluginManagement>
-        <plugins>
+      <plugins>
             <!--This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings only. It has no influence on the Maven build itself.-->
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
-                <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
-                <version>1.0.0</version>
-                <configuration>
-                    <lifecycleMappingMetadata>
-                        <pluginExecutions>
-                            <pluginExecution>
-                                <pluginExecutionFilter>
-                                    <groupId>org.apache.asterix</groupId>
-                                    <artifactId>asterix-test-datagenerator-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                                    <versionRange>[0.8.9-SNAPSHOT,)</versionRange>
-                                    <goals>
-                                        <goal>generate-testdata</goal>
-                                    </goals>
-                                </pluginExecutionFilter>
-                                <action>
-                                    <ignore />
-                                </action>
-                            </pluginExecution>
-                        </pluginExecutions>
-                    </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
-                </configuration>
-            </plugin>
-        </plugins>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
+          <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
+          <version>1.0.0</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <lifecycleMappingMetadata>
+              <pluginExecutions>
+                <pluginExecution>
+                  <pluginExecutionFilter>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.asterix</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>asterix-test-datagenerator-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <versionRange>[0.8.9-SNAPSHOT,)</versionRange>
+                    <goals>
+                      <goal>generate-testdata</goal>
+                    </goals>
+                  </pluginExecutionFilter>
+                  <action>
+                    <ignore />
+                  </action>
+                </pluginExecution>
+              </pluginExecutions>
+            </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
+      </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
   </build>
   <dependencies>
@@ -201,10 +197,6 @@
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty-servlet</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -228,6 +220,10 @@
       <artifactId>hyracks-api</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hyracks-http</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.asterix</groupId>
       <artifactId>asterix-algebra</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
@@ -484,5 +480,10 @@
       <classifier>tests</classifier>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+      <artifactId>netty-all</artifactId>
+      <version>4.1.6.Final</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
-</project>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/APIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ApiServlet.java
similarity index 60%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/APIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ApiServlet.java
index b693407..c38e0a9 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/APIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ApiServlet.java
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR;
@@ -29,14 +29,11 @@
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
 import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultReader;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultUtil;
@@ -55,38 +52,48 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataset.IHyracksDataset;
 import org.apache.hyracks.client.dataset.HyracksDataset;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
 
-public class APIServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(APIServlet.class.getName());
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class ApiServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ApiServlet.class.getName());
     public static final String HTML_STATEMENT_SEPARATOR = "<!-- BEGIN -->";
 
     private final ILangCompilationProvider aqlCompilationProvider;
     private final ILangCompilationProvider sqlppCompilationProvider;
-    private final transient IStatementExecutorFactory statementExectorFactory;
+    private final IStatementExecutorFactory statementExectorFactory;
 
-    public APIServlet(ILangCompilationProvider aqlCompilationProvider,
-            ILangCompilationProvider sqlppCompilationProvider, IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
+    public ApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths,
+            ILangCompilationProvider aqlCompilationProvider, ILangCompilationProvider sqlppCompilationProvider,
+            IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
         this.aqlCompilationProvider = aqlCompilationProvider;
         this.sqlppCompilationProvider = sqlppCompilationProvider;
         this.statementExectorFactory = statementExecutorFactory;
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+    public void doPost(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
         // Query language
         ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider = "AQL".equals(request.getParameter("query-language"))
                 ? aqlCompilationProvider : sqlppCompilationProvider;
         IParserFactory parserFactory = compilationProvider.getParserFactory();
 
         // Output format.
+        PrintWriter out = response.writer();
         OutputFormat format;
-        boolean csv_and_header = false;
+        boolean csvAndHeader = false;
         String output = request.getParameter("output-format");
         try {
             format = OutputFormat.valueOf(output);
         } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
-            LOGGER.info(output + ": unsupported output-format, using " + OutputFormat.CLEAN_JSON + " instead");
+            LOGGER.log(Level.INFO,
+                    output + ": unsupported output-format, using " + OutputFormat.CLEAN_JSON + " instead", e);
             // Default output format
             format = OutputFormat.CLEAN_JSON;
         }
@@ -99,35 +106,37 @@
         String printOptimizedLogicalPlanParam = request.getParameter("print-optimized-logical-plan");
         String printJob = request.getParameter("print-job");
         String executeQuery = request.getParameter("execute-query");
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        response.setContentType("text/html");
-        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
-        ServletContext context = getServletContext();
-        IHyracksClientConnection hcc;
-        IHyracksDataset hds;
-
         try {
-            synchronized (context) {
-                hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
-
-                hds = (IHyracksDataset) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
-                if (hds == null) {
-                    hds = new HyracksDataset(hcc, ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
-                    context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_HTML, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure setting content type", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
+        try {
+            IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
+            IHyracksDataset hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+            if (hds == null) {
+                synchronized (ctx) {
+                    hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+                    if (hds == null) {
+                        hds = new HyracksDataset(hcc, ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
+                        ctx.put(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
+                    }
                 }
             }
             IParser parser = parserFactory.createParser(query);
             List<Statement> aqlStatements = parser.parse();
             SessionConfig sessionConfig = new SessionConfig(out, format, true, isSet(executeQuery), true);
             sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_HTML, true);
-            sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_CSV_HEADER, csv_and_header);
+            sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_CSV_HEADER, csvAndHeader);
             sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_WRAPPER_ARRAY, isSet(wrapperArray));
             sessionConfig.setOOBData(isSet(printExprParam), isSet(printRewrittenExprParam),
                     isSet(printLogicalPlanParam), isSet(printOptimizedLogicalPlanParam), isSet(printJob));
             MetadataManager.INSTANCE.init();
             IStatementExecutor translator =
                     statementExectorFactory.create(aqlStatements, sessionConfig, compilationProvider);
-            double duration = 0;
+            double duration;
             long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
             translator.compileAndExecute(hcc, hds, IStatementExecutor.ResultDelivery.IMMEDIATE);
             long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
@@ -143,63 +152,86 @@
         }
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+    public void doGet(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
         String resourcePath = null;
-        String requestURI = request.getRequestURI();
+        String requestURI = request.getHttpRequest().uri();
 
-        if (requestURI.equals("/")) {
-            response.setContentType("text/html");
+        if ("/".equals(requestURI)) {
+            try {
+                IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_HTML, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure setting content type", e);
+                response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+                return;
+            }
             resourcePath = "/webui/querytemplate.html";
         } else {
             resourcePath = requestURI;
         }
 
-        try (InputStream is = APIServlet.class.getResourceAsStream(resourcePath)) {
+        try (InputStream is = ApiServlet.class.getResourceAsStream(resourcePath)) {
             if (is == null) {
-                response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
+                response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.NOT_FOUND);
                 return;
             }
-
             // Special handler for font files and .png resources
             if (resourcePath.endsWith(".png")) {
-
                 BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(is);
-                OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
+                IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.IMG_PNG);
+                OutputStream outputStream = response.outputStream();
                 String formatName = "png";
-                response.setContentType("image/png");
                 ImageIO.write(img, formatName, outputStream);
                 outputStream.close();
                 return;
             }
+            String type = IServlet.ContentType.mime(QueryWebInterfaceServlet.extension(resourcePath));
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, "".equals(type) ? IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN : type,
+                    IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+            writeOutput(response, is, resourcePath);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure handling request", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
+    }
 
-            response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-            InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
+    private void writeOutput(IServletResponse response, InputStream is, String resourcePath) throws IOException {
+        try (InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr)) {
             StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
-            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
             String line;
             try {
                 line = br.readLine();
             } catch (NullPointerException e) {
-                LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "NPE reading resource " + resourcePath
-                        + ", assuming JDK-8080094; returning 404", e);
+                LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING,
+                        "NPE reading resource " + resourcePath + ", assuming JDK-8080094; returning 404", e);
                 // workaround lame JDK bug where a broken InputStream is returned in case the resourcePath is a
                 // directory; see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8080094
-                response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
+                response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.NOT_FOUND);
                 return;
             }
-
             while (line != null) {
                 sb.append(line);
                 line = br.readLine();
             }
-
-            PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
+            PrintWriter out = response.writer();
             out.println(sb.toString());
         }
     }
 
     private static boolean isSet(String requestParameter) {
-        return (requestParameter != null && requestParameter.equals("true"));
+        return requestParameter != null && "true".equals(requestParameter);
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+        if (request.getHttpRequest().method() == HttpMethod.GET) {
+            doGet(request, response);
+        } else if (request.getHttpRequest().method() == HttpMethod.POST) {
+            doPost(request, response);
+        } else {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+        }
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ClusterAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ClusterApiServlet.java
similarity index 78%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ClusterAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ClusterApiServlet.java
index 988b5bb..6fd6c47 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ClusterAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ClusterApiServlet.java
@@ -16,37 +16,40 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
-import org.apache.asterix.common.config.AsterixProperties;
-import org.apache.asterix.common.config.ExternalProperties;
-import org.apache.asterix.common.utils.JSONUtil;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.config.AbstractProperties;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.config.ReplicationProperties;
+import org.apache.asterix.common.utils.JSONUtil;
 import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.ClusterStateManager;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
-public class ClusterAPIServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ClusterAPIServlet.class.getName());
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaderNames;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
 
+public class ClusterApiServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ClusterApiServlet.class.getName());
+    private static final Pattern PARENT_DIR = Pattern.compile("/[^./]+/\\.\\./");
+    private static final Pattern REPLICATION_PROPERTY = Pattern.compile("^replication\\.");
     protected static final String NODE_ID_KEY = "node_id";
     protected static final String CONFIG_URI_KEY = "configUri";
     protected static final String STATS_URI_KEY = "statsUri";
@@ -56,26 +59,19 @@
     protected static final String VERSION_URI_KEY = "versionUri";
     protected static final String DIAGNOSTICS_URI_KEY = "diagnosticsUri";
     protected static final String REPLICATION_URI_KEY = "replicationUri";
-    private static final Pattern PARENT_DIR = Pattern.compile("/[^./]+/\\.\\./");
-    private static final Pattern REPLICATION_PROPERTY = Pattern.compile("^replication\\.");
     private final ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
 
-    @Override
-    public final void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
-        try {
-            getUnsafe(request, response);
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Unhandled IOException thrown from " + getClass().getName() + " get impl", e);
-        }
+    public ClusterApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
     }
 
-    protected void getUnsafe(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        response.setContentType("application/json");
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.getWriter();
+    protected void getUnsafe(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+        IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.writer();
         try {
             ObjectNode json;
-            switch (request.getPathInfo() == null ? "" : request.getPathInfo()) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+            switch (path(request)) {
                 case "":
                     json = getClusterStateJSON(request, "");
                     break;
@@ -88,13 +84,13 @@
                 default:
                     throw new IllegalArgumentException();
             }
-            response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
             responseWriter.write(JSONUtil.convertNode(json));
         } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { // NOSONAR - exception not logged or rethrown
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.NOT_FOUND);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             LOGGER.log(Level.INFO, "exception thrown for " + request, e);
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, e.toString());
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            responseWriter.write(e.toString());
         }
         responseWriter.flush();
     }
@@ -128,13 +124,15 @@
         return AbstractProperties.getImplementations();
     }
 
-    protected ObjectNode getClusterStateJSON(HttpServletRequest request, String pathToNode) {
+    protected ObjectNode getClusterStateJSON(IServletRequest request, String pathToNode) {
         ObjectNode json = ClusterStateManager.INSTANCE.getClusterStateDescription();
         Map<String, Object> allProperties = getAllClusterProperties();
         json.putPOJO("config", allProperties);
 
         ArrayNode ncs = (ArrayNode) json.get("ncs");
-        final StringBuilder requestURL = new StringBuilder(request.getRequestURL());
+        final StringBuilder requestURL = new StringBuilder("http://");
+        requestURL.append(request.getHeader(HttpHeaderNames.HOST));
+        requestURL.append(request.getHttpRequest().uri());
         if (requestURL.charAt(requestURL.length() - 1) != '/') {
             requestURL.append('/');
         }
@@ -175,4 +173,18 @@
         }
         return clusterURL;
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        if (request.getHttpRequest().method() != HttpMethod.GET) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+            return;
+        }
+        try {
+            getUnsafe(request, response);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Unhandled IOException thrown from " + getClass().getName() + " get impl", e);
+        }
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ClusterCCDetailsAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ClusterControllerDetailsApiServlet.java
similarity index 69%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ClusterCCDetailsAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ClusterControllerDetailsApiServlet.java
index 569d5a0..4419e8a 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ClusterCCDetailsAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ClusterControllerDetailsApiServlet.java
@@ -16,61 +16,68 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
-public class ClusterCCDetailsAPIServlet extends ClusterAPIServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ClusterCCDetailsAPIServlet.class.getName());
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class ClusterControllerDetailsApiServlet extends ClusterApiServlet {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ClusterControllerDetailsApiServlet.class.getName());
     private final ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
 
+    public ClusterControllerDetailsApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+    }
+
     @Override
-    protected void getUnsafe(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.getWriter();
-        ServletContext context = getServletContext();
-        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
+    protected void getUnsafe(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.writer();
+        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
         try {
             ObjectNode json;
-            if (request.getPathInfo() == null) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+            if ("".equals(path(request))) {
                 json = (ObjectNode) getClusterStateJSON(request, "../").get("cc");
             } else {
                 json = processNode(request, hcc);
             }
-            response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
-            response.setContentType("application/json");
-            response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
             responseWriter.write(new ObjectMapper().writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(json));
         } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { // NOSONAR - exception not logged or rethrown
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.NOT_FOUND);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             LOGGER.log(Level.INFO, "exception thrown for " + request, e);
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, e.toString());
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            responseWriter.write(e.toString());
         }
         responseWriter.flush();
     }
 
-    private ObjectNode processNode(HttpServletRequest request, IHyracksClientConnection hcc) throws Exception {
-        String pathInfo = request.getPathInfo();
+    private ObjectNode processNode(IServletRequest request, IHyracksClientConnection hcc)
+            throws Exception {
+        String pathInfo = path(request);
         if (pathInfo.endsWith("/")) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException();
         }
         String[] parts = pathInfo.substring(1).split("/");
 
-        if (request.getPathInfo() == null) {
+        if ("".equals(pathInfo)) {
             return (ObjectNode) getClusterStateJSON(request, "../../").get("cc");
         } else if (parts.length == 1) {
             switch (parts[0]) {
@@ -97,5 +104,4 @@
         }
         return (ObjectNode) om.readTree(dump);
     }
-
 }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ConnectorAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ConnectorApiServlet.java
similarity index 79%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ConnectorAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ConnectorApiServlet.java
index 78801b8..d832672 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ConnectorAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ConnectorApiServlet.java
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 
@@ -25,12 +24,10 @@
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import org.apache.asterix.metadata.MetadataManager;
 import org.apache.asterix.metadata.MetadataTransactionContext;
 import org.apache.asterix.metadata.declared.MetadataProvider;
@@ -40,26 +37,47 @@
 import org.apache.asterix.util.FlushDatasetUtils;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.NodeControllerInfo;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.io.FileSplit;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.io.FileSplit;
 
-/***
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+/**
  * The REST API that takes a dataverse name and a dataset name as the input
  * and returns an array of file splits (IP, file-path) of the dataset in LOSSLESS_JSON.
  * It is mostly used by external runtime, e.g., Pregelix or IMRU to pull data
  * in parallel from existing AsterixDB datasets.
- *
- * @author yingyi
  */
-public class ConnectorAPIServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+public class ConnectorApiServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ConnectorApiServlet.class.getName());
+
+    public ConnectorApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+    }
 
     @Override
-    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        response.setContentType("text/html");
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        if (request.getHttpRequest().method() != HttpMethod.GET) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+            return;
+        }
+        response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+        try {
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_HTML, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure setting content type", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
+        PrintWriter out = response.writer();
         try {
             ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
             ObjectNode jsonResponse = om.createObjectNode();
@@ -71,13 +89,8 @@
                 out.flush();
                 return;
             }
-            ServletContext context = getServletContext();
 
-            IHyracksClientConnection hcc = null;
-            synchronized (context) {
-                hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
-            }
-
+            IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
             // Metadata transaction begins.
             MetadataManager.INSTANCE.init();
             MetadataTransactionContext mdTxnCtx = MetadataManager.INSTANCE.beginTransaction();
@@ -120,7 +133,7 @@
             out.write(jsonResponse.toString());
             out.flush();
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            e.printStackTrace();
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure handling a request", e);
             out.println(e.getMessage());
             out.flush();
             e.printStackTrace(out);
@@ -128,7 +141,7 @@
     }
 
     private void formResponseObject(ObjectNode jsonResponse, FileSplit[] fileSplits, ARecordType recordType,
-            String primaryKeys, boolean temp, Map<String, NodeControllerInfo> nodeMap) throws Exception {
+            String primaryKeys, boolean temp, Map<String, NodeControllerInfo> nodeMap) {
         ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
         ArrayNode partititons = om.createArrayNode();
         // Whether the dataset is temp or not
@@ -139,7 +152,7 @@
         jsonResponse.set("type", recordType.toJSON());
         // Generates file partitions.
         for (FileSplit split : fileSplits) {
-            String ipAddress = nodeMap.get(split.getNodeName()).getNetworkAddress().getAddress().toString();
+            String ipAddress = nodeMap.get(split.getNodeName()).getNetworkAddress().getAddress();
             String path = split.getPath();
             FilePartition partition = new FilePartition(ipAddress, path);
             partititons.add(partition.toObjectNode());
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/DDLAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/DdlApiServlet.java
similarity index 66%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/DDLAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/DdlApiServlet.java
index 19a7609..bcc6914 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/DDLAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/DdlApiServlet.java
@@ -16,26 +16,26 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.compiler.provider.ILangCompilationProvider;
 import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.Statement;
 import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutorFactory;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
 
-public class DDLAPIServlet extends RESTAPIServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-    private static final byte ALLOWED_CATEGORIES = Statement.Category.QUERY | Statement.Category.UPDATE
-            | Statement.Category.DDL;
+public class DdlApiServlet extends RestApiServlet {
+    private static final byte ALLOWED_CATEGORIES =
+            Statement.Category.QUERY | Statement.Category.UPDATE | Statement.Category.DDL;
 
-    public DDLAPIServlet(ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider,
-            IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
-        super(compilationProvider, statementExecutorFactory);
+    public DdlApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths,
+            ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider, IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
+        super(ctx, paths, compilationProvider, statementExecutorFactory);
     }
 
     @Override
-    protected String getQueryParameter(HttpServletRequest request) {
+    protected String getQueryParameter(IServletRequest request) {
         return request.getParameter("ddl");
     }
 
@@ -48,4 +48,5 @@
     protected String getErrorMessage() {
         return "Invalid statement: Non-DDL statement %s to the DDL API.";
     }
+
 }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/DiagnosticsAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/DiagnosticsApiServlet.java
similarity index 77%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/DiagnosticsAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/DiagnosticsApiServlet.java
index 4416d5c..d91352d 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/DiagnosticsAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/DiagnosticsApiServlet.java
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 
@@ -27,56 +27,63 @@
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.Future;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
+
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants;
 import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.AppContextInfo;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
-public class DiagnosticsAPIServlet extends ClusterNodeDetailsAPIServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(DiagnosticsAPIServlet.class.getName());
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class DiagnosticsApiServlet extends NodeControllerDetailsApiServlet {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(DiagnosticsApiServlet.class.getName());
+
+    public DiagnosticsApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+    }
 
     @Override
-    protected void getUnsafe(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        response.setContentType("application/json");
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.getWriter();
+    protected void getUnsafe(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+        IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.writer();
         ObjectNode json;
         ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
+        response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
         om.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
         try {
-            if (request.getPathInfo() != null) {
+            if (!"".equals(path(request))) {
                 throw new IllegalArgumentException();
             }
             json = getClusterDiagnosticsJSON();
-            response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
             responseWriter.write(om.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(json));
         } catch (IllegalStateException e) { // NOSONAR - exception not logged or rethrown
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE);
         } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { // NOSONAR - exception not logged or rethrown
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.NOT_FOUND);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             LOGGER.log(Level.INFO, "exception thrown for " + request, e);
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, e.toString());
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            responseWriter.write(e.toString());
         }
         responseWriter.flush();
     }
 
     private ObjectNode getClusterDiagnosticsJSON() throws Exception {
         ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
-        final ServletContext context = getServletContext();
-        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
-        ExecutorService executor = (ExecutorService) context.getAttribute(ServletConstants.EXECUTOR_SERVICE);
-
+        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
+        ExecutorService executor = (ExecutorService) ctx.get(ServletConstants.EXECUTOR_SERVICE);
         Map<String, Future<ObjectNode>> ccFutureData = new HashMap<>();
         ccFutureData.put("threaddump",
                 executor.submit(() -> fixupKeys((ObjectNode) om.readTree(hcc.getThreadDump(null)))));
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/FeedServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/FeedServlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac79088
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/FeedServlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
+
+import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
+
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class FeedServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(FeedServlet.class.getName());
+
+    public FeedServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        try {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+            String resourcePath;
+            String requestURI = request.getHttpRequest().uri();
+
+            if ("/".equals(requestURI)) {
+                IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_HTML);
+                resourcePath = "/feed/home.html";
+            } else {
+                resourcePath = requestURI;
+            }
+
+            InputStream is = FeedServlet.class.getResourceAsStream(resourcePath);
+            if (is == null) {
+                response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.NOT_FOUND);
+                return;
+            }
+
+            // Special handler for font files and .png resources
+            if (resourcePath.endsWith(".png")) {
+
+                BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(is);
+                OutputStream outputStream = response.outputStream();
+                String formatName = "png";
+                IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.IMG_PNG);
+                ImageIO.write(img, formatName, outputStream);
+                return;
+            }
+
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_HTML, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+            InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
+            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
+            String line = br.readLine();
+
+            while (line != null) {
+                sb.append(line + "\n");
+                line = br.readLine();
+            }
+
+            PrintWriter out = response.writer();
+            out.println(sb.toString());
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure handling request", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/FullAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/FullApiServlet.java
similarity index 74%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/FullAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/FullApiServlet.java
index 0f86ec6..7788136 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/FullAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/FullApiServlet.java
@@ -16,29 +16,24 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.compiler.provider.ILangCompilationProvider;
 import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.Statement;
 import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutorFactory;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
 
-public class FullAPIServlet extends RESTAPIServlet {
+public class FullApiServlet extends RestApiServlet {
 
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
     private static final String AQL_STMT_PARAM_NAME = "aql";
     private static final byte ALLOWED_CATEGORIES = Statement.Category.QUERY | Statement.Category.UPDATE
             | Statement.Category.DDL | Statement.Category.PROCEDURE;
 
-    public FullAPIServlet(ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider,
-            IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
-        super(compilationProvider, statementExecutorFactory);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected String getQueryParameter(HttpServletRequest request) {
-        return request.getParameter(AQL_STMT_PARAM_NAME);
+    public FullApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths,
+            ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider, IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
+        super(ctx, paths, compilationProvider, statementExecutorFactory);
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -50,4 +45,9 @@
     protected String getErrorMessage() {
         throw new IllegalStateException();
     }
+
+    @Override
+    protected String getQueryParameter(IServletRequest request) {
+        return request.getParameter(AQL_STMT_PARAM_NAME);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ClusterNodeDetailsAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/NodeControllerDetailsApiServlet.java
similarity index 76%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ClusterNodeDetailsAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/NodeControllerDetailsApiServlet.java
index d737ad8..c1423e7 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ClusterNodeDetailsAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/NodeControllerDetailsApiServlet.java
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 
@@ -25,64 +25,64 @@
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.ClusterStateManager;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
-import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.ClusterStateManager;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
-
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
-public class ClusterNodeDetailsAPIServlet extends ClusterAPIServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ClusterNodeDetailsAPIServlet.class.getName());
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class NodeControllerDetailsApiServlet extends ClusterApiServlet {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(NodeControllerDetailsApiServlet.class.getName());
     private final ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
 
-    @Override
-    public void init() throws ServletException{
+    public NodeControllerDetailsApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
         om.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
     }
 
     @Override
-    protected void getUnsafe(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.getWriter();
-        ServletContext context = getServletContext();
-        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
+    protected void getUnsafe(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.writer();
+        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
         try {
             ObjectNode json;
-            if (request.getPathInfo() == null) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+            if ("".equals(path(request))) {
                 json = om.createObjectNode();
                 json.set("ncs", getClusterStateJSON(request, "../").get("ncs"));
             } else {
                 json = processNode(request, hcc);
             }
-            response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
-            response.setContentType("application/json");
-            response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
             responseWriter.write(om.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(json));
         } catch (IllegalStateException e) { // NOSONAR - exception not logged or rethrown
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE);
         } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { // NOSONAR - exception not logged or rethrown
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.NOT_FOUND);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             LOGGER.log(Level.INFO, "exception thrown for " + request, e);
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, e.toString());
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            responseWriter.write(e.toString());
         }
         responseWriter.flush();
     }
 
-    private ObjectNode processNode(HttpServletRequest request, IHyracksClientConnection hcc)
+    private ObjectNode processNode(IServletRequest request, IHyracksClientConnection hcc)
             throws Exception {
-        String pathInfo = request.getPathInfo();
+        String pathInfo = path(request);
         if (pathInfo.endsWith("/")) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException();
         }
@@ -126,11 +126,11 @@
         }
     }
 
-    protected ObjectNode fixupKeys(ObjectNode json)  {
+    protected ObjectNode fixupKeys(ObjectNode json) {
         // TODO (mblow): generate the keys with _ to begin with
         List<String> keys = new ArrayList<>();
-        for (Iterator iter = json.fieldNames(); iter.hasNext(); ) {
-            keys.add((String) iter.next());
+        for (Iterator<String> iter = json.fieldNames(); iter.hasNext();) {
+            keys.add(iter.next());
         }
         for (String key : keys) {
             String newKey = key.replace('-', '_');
@@ -151,12 +151,12 @@
         json.remove("rrd-ptr");
 
         List<String> keys = new ArrayList<>();
-        for (Iterator iter = json.fieldNames(); iter.hasNext(); ) {
-            keys.add((String) iter.next());
+        for (Iterator<String> iter = json.fieldNames(); iter.hasNext();) {
+            keys.add(iter.next());
         }
 
         final ArrayNode gcNames = (ArrayNode) json.get("gc-names");
-        final ArrayNode gcCollectionTimes  = (ArrayNode) json.get("gc-collection-times");
+        final ArrayNode gcCollectionTimes = (ArrayNode) json.get("gc-collection-times");
         final ArrayNode gcCollectionCounts = (ArrayNode) json.get("gc-collection-counts");
 
         for (String key : keys) {
@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@
         for (int i = 0; i < gcNames.size(); i++) {
             ObjectNode gc = om.createObjectNode();
             gc.set("name", gcNames.get(i));
-            gc.set("collection-time", ((ArrayNode)gcCollectionTimes.get(i)).get(index));
-            gc.set("collection-count", ((ArrayNode)gcCollectionCounts.get(i)).get(index));
+            gc.set("collection-time", ((ArrayNode) gcCollectionTimes.get(i)).get(index));
+            gc.set("collection-count", ((ArrayNode) gcCollectionCounts.get(i)).get(index));
             gcs.add(gc);
         }
         json.set("gcs", gcs);
@@ -211,5 +211,4 @@
         }
         return (ObjectNode) om.readTree(dump);
     }
-
 }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryApiServlet.java
similarity index 72%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryApiServlet.java
index cc70324..917d9a8 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryApiServlet.java
@@ -16,25 +16,25 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.compiler.provider.ILangCompilationProvider;
 import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.Statement;
 import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutorFactory;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
 
-public class QueryAPIServlet extends RESTAPIServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+public class QueryApiServlet extends RestApiServlet {
     private static final byte ALLOWED_CATEGORIES = Statement.Category.QUERY;
 
-    public QueryAPIServlet(ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider,
-            IStatementExecutorFactory queryTranslatorFactory) {
-        super(compilationProvider, queryTranslatorFactory);
+    public QueryApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths,
+            ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider, IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
+        super(ctx, paths, compilationProvider, statementExecutorFactory);
     }
 
     @Override
-    protected String getQueryParameter(HttpServletRequest request) {
+    protected String getQueryParameter(IServletRequest request) {
         return request.getParameter("query");
     }
 
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryResultAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryResultApiServlet.java
similarity index 60%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryResultAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryResultApiServlet.java
index b250690..6240f51 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryResultAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryResultApiServlet.java
@@ -16,22 +16,18 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.HyracksProperties;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultReader;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultUtil;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.exceptions.AsterixException;
@@ -43,21 +39,42 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataset.ResultSetId;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.job.JobId;
 import org.apache.hyracks.client.dataset.HyracksDataset;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
-public class QueryResultAPIServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(QueryResultAPIServlet.class.getName());
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class QueryResultApiServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(QueryResultApiServlet.class.getName());
+
+    public QueryResultApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+    }
 
     @Override
-    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        int respCode = HttpServletResponse.SC_OK;
-        response.setContentType("text/html"); // TODO this seems wrong ...
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        if (request.getHttpRequest().method() != HttpMethod.GET) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+            return;
+        }
+        response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+        // TODO this seems wrong ...
+        try {
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_HTML, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure setting content type", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
         String strHandle = request.getParameter("handle");
-        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
-        ServletContext context = getServletContext();
+        PrintWriter out = response.writer();
         IHyracksClientConnection hcc;
         IHyracksDataset hds;
 
@@ -70,17 +87,20 @@
             String strIP = hp.getHyracksIPAddress();
             int port = hp.getHyracksPort();
 
-            synchronized (context) {
-                hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
-                if (hcc == null) {
-                    hcc = new HyracksConnection(strIP, port);
-                    context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
-                }
-
-                hds = (IHyracksDataset) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
-                if (hds == null) {
-                    hds = new HyracksDataset(hcc, ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
-                    context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
+            hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
+            hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+            if (hcc == null || hds == null) {
+                synchronized (ctx) {
+                    hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
+                    hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+                    if (hcc == null) {
+                        hcc = new HyracksConnection(strIP, port);
+                        ctx.put(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
+                    }
+                    if (hds == null) {
+                        hds = new HyracksDataset(hcc, ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
+                        ctx.put(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
+                    }
                 }
             }
             ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
@@ -88,7 +108,6 @@
             ArrayNode handle = (ArrayNode) handleObj.get("handle");
             JobId jobId = new JobId(handle.get(0).asLong());
             ResultSetId rsId = new ResultSetId(handle.get(1).asLong());
-
             ResultReader resultReader = new ResultReader(hds);
             resultReader.open(jobId, rsId);
 
@@ -98,17 +117,17 @@
             // way to send the same OutputFormat value here as was
             // originally determined there. Need to save this value on
             // some object that we can obtain here.
-            SessionConfig sessionConfig = RESTAPIServlet.initResponse(request, response);
+            SessionConfig sessionConfig = RestApiServlet.initResponse(request, response);
             ResultUtil.printResults(resultReader, sessionConfig, new Stats(), null);
 
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            respCode = HttpServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST;
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.BAD_REQUEST);
             out.println(e.getMessage());
             LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Error retrieving result", e);
         }
-        response.setStatus(respCode);
         if (out.checkError()) {
             LOGGER.warning("Error flushing output writer");
         }
     }
+
 }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryServiceServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryServiceServlet.java
similarity index 85%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryServiceServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryServiceServlet.java
index a0454fd..b302bab 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryServiceServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryServiceServlet.java
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR;
@@ -27,20 +27,10 @@
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.UUID;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultReader;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultUtil;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.translator.QueryTranslator;
@@ -58,26 +48,54 @@
 import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutor.Stats;
 import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutorFactory;
 import org.apache.asterix.translator.SessionConfig;
-import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hyracks.algebricks.common.exceptions.AlgebricksException;
 import org.apache.hyracks.algebricks.core.algebra.prettyprint.AlgebricksAppendable;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataset.IHyracksDataset;
 import org.apache.hyracks.client.dataset.HyracksDataset;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
 
-public class QueryServiceServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaderNames;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class QueryServiceServlet extends AbstractServlet {
     private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(QueryServiceServlet.class.getName());
-    private final transient ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider;
-    private final transient IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory;
+    private final ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider;
+    private final IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory;
 
-    public QueryServiceServlet(ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider,
+    public QueryServiceServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths,
+            ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider,
             IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
         this.compilationProvider = compilationProvider;
         this.statementExecutorFactory = statementExecutorFactory;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        if (request.getHttpRequest().method() != HttpMethod.POST) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+            return;
+        }
+        try {
+            handleRequest(getRequestParameters(request), response);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            // Servlet methods should not throw exceptions
+            // http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/600.html
+            GlobalConfig.ASTERIX_LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, e.getMessage(), e);
+        }
+    }
+
     public enum Parameter {
         STATEMENT("statement"),
         FORMAT("format"),
@@ -96,22 +114,6 @@
         }
     }
 
-    private enum MediaType {
-        CSV("text/csv"),
-        JSON("application/json"),
-        ADM("application/x-adm");
-
-        private final String str;
-
-        MediaType(String str) {
-            this.str = str;
-        }
-
-        public String str() {
-            return str;
-        }
-    }
-
     private enum Attribute {
         HEADER("header"),
         LOSSLESS("lossless");
@@ -199,7 +201,7 @@
         }
     }
 
-    enum TimeUnit {
+    public enum TimeUnit {
         SEC("s", 9),
         MILLI("ms", 6),
         MICRO("µs", 3),
@@ -213,7 +215,7 @@
             this.nanoDigits = nanoDigits;
         }
 
-        static String formatNanos(long nanoTime) {
+        public static String formatNanos(long nanoTime) {
             final String strTime = String.valueOf(nanoTime);
             final int len = strTime.length();
             for (TimeUnit tu : TimeUnit.values()) {
@@ -277,13 +279,13 @@
 
     private static SessionConfig.OutputFormat getFormat(String format) {
         if (format != null) {
-            if (format.startsWith(MediaType.CSV.str())) {
+            if (format.startsWith(IServlet.ContentType.CSV)) {
                 return SessionConfig.OutputFormat.CSV;
             }
-            if (format.equals(MediaType.ADM.str())) {
+            if (format.equals(IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_ADM)) {
                 return SessionConfig.OutputFormat.ADM;
             }
-            if (format.startsWith(MediaType.JSON.str())) {
+            if (format.startsWith(IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON)) {
                 return Boolean.parseBoolean(getParameterValue(format, Attribute.LOSSLESS.str()))
                         ? SessionConfig.OutputFormat.LOSSLESS_JSON : SessionConfig.OutputFormat.CLEAN_JSON;
             }
@@ -308,7 +310,6 @@
             }
         };
 
-
         SessionConfig.ResultDecorator resultPostfix = (AlgebricksAppendable app) -> app.append("\t,\n");
 
         SessionConfig.ResultDecorator handlePrefix = new SessionConfig.ResultDecorator() {
@@ -324,8 +325,8 @@
         SessionConfig.ResultDecorator handlePostfix = (AlgebricksAppendable app) -> app.append(",\n");
 
         SessionConfig.OutputFormat format = getFormat(param.format);
-        SessionConfig sessionConfig = new SessionConfig(resultWriter, format, resultPrefix, resultPostfix, handlePrefix,
-                handlePostfix);
+        SessionConfig sessionConfig = new SessionConfig(resultWriter, format, resultPrefix, resultPostfix,
+                handlePrefix, handlePostfix);
         sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_WRAPPER_ARRAY, true);
         sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_INDENT_JSON, param.pretty);
         sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_QUOTE_RECORD,
@@ -370,10 +371,10 @@
     private static void printType(PrintWriter pw, SessionConfig sessionConfig) {
         switch (sessionConfig.fmt()) {
             case ADM:
-                printField(pw, ResultFields.TYPE.str(), MediaType.ADM.str());
+                printField(pw, ResultFields.TYPE.str(), IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_ADM);
                 break;
             case CSV:
-                String contentType = MediaType.CSV.str() + "; header="
+                String contentType = IServlet.ContentType.CSV + "; header="
                         + (sessionConfig.is(SessionConfig.FORMAT_CSV_HEADER) ? "present" : "absent");
                 printField(pw, ResultFields.TYPE.str(), contentType);
                 break;
@@ -396,7 +397,6 @@
         pw.print(ResultFields.ERRORS.str());
         pw.print("\": [{ \n");
         printField(pw, ErrorField.CODE.str(), "1");
-
         final String msg = rootCause.getMessage();
         printField(pw, ErrorField.MSG.str(), JSONUtil.escape(msg != null ? msg : rootCause.getClass().getSimpleName()),
                 addStack);
@@ -419,17 +419,6 @@
         pw.print("\t}\n");
     }
 
-    @Override
-    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException {
-        try {
-            handleRequest(getRequestParameters(request), response);
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            // Servlet methods should not throw exceptions
-            // http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/600.html
-            GlobalConfig.ASTERIX_LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, e.getMessage(), e);
-        }
-    }
-
     private String getOptText(JsonNode node, String fieldName) {
         final JsonNode value = node.get(fieldName);
         return value != null ? value.asText() : null;
@@ -440,12 +429,12 @@
         return value != null ? value.asBoolean() : defaultValue;
     }
 
-    private RequestParameters getRequestParameters(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
-        final String contentTypeParam = request.getContentType();
+    private RequestParameters getRequestParameters(IServletRequest request) throws IOException {
+        final String contentTypeParam = request.getHttpRequest().headers().get(HttpHeaderNames.CONTENT_TYPE);
         int sep = contentTypeParam.indexOf(';');
         final String contentType = sep < 0 ? contentTypeParam.trim() : contentTypeParam.substring(0, sep).trim();
         RequestParameters param = new RequestParameters();
-        if (MediaType.JSON.str().equals(contentType)) {
+        if (IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON.equals(contentType)) {
             try {
                 JsonNode jsonRequest = new ObjectMapper().readTree(getRequestBody(request));
                 param.statement = jsonRequest.get(Parameter.STATEMENT.str()).asText();
@@ -470,10 +459,8 @@
         return param;
     }
 
-    private static String getRequestBody(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
-        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
-        IOUtils.copy(request.getInputStream(), sw, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
-        return sw.toString();
+    private static String getRequestBody(IServletRequest request) throws IOException {
+        return request.getHttpRequest().content().toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
     }
 
     private static QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery parseResultDelivery(String mode) {
@@ -486,7 +473,7 @@
         }
     }
 
-    private void handleRequest(RequestParameters param, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+    private void handleRequest(RequestParameters param, IServletResponse response) throws IOException {
         LOGGER.info(param.toString());
         long elapsedStart = System.nanoTime();
         final StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
@@ -495,10 +482,9 @@
         QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery delivery = parseResultDelivery(param.mode);
 
         SessionConfig sessionConfig = createSessionConfig(param, resultWriter);
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        response.setContentType(MediaType.JSON.str());
+        IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
 
-        int respCode = HttpServletResponse.SC_OK;
+        HttpResponseStatus status = HttpResponseStatus.OK;
         Stats stats = new Stats();
         long execStart = -1;
         long execEnd = -1;
@@ -517,15 +503,15 @@
             if (param.statement == null || param.statement.isEmpty()) {
                 throw new AsterixException("Empty request, no statement provided");
             }
-            IHyracksClientConnection hcc;
-            IHyracksDataset hds;
-            ServletContext context = getServletContext();
-            synchronized (context) {
-                hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
-                hds = (IHyracksDataset) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
-                if (hds == null) {
-                    hds = new HyracksDataset(hcc, ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
-                    context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
+            IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
+            IHyracksDataset hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+            if (hds == null) {
+                synchronized (ctx) {
+                    hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+                    if (hds == null) {
+                        hds = new HyracksDataset(hcc, ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
+                        ctx.put(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
+                    }
                 }
             }
             IParser parser = compilationProvider.getParserFactory().createParser(param.statement);
@@ -541,12 +527,12 @@
             GlobalConfig.ASTERIX_LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, pe.getMessage(), pe);
             printError(resultWriter, pe);
             printStatus(resultWriter, ResultStatus.FATAL);
-            respCode = HttpServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST;
+            status = HttpResponseStatus.BAD_REQUEST;
         } catch (Exception e) {
             GlobalConfig.ASTERIX_LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, e.getMessage(), e);
             printError(resultWriter, e);
             printStatus(resultWriter, ResultStatus.FATAL);
-            respCode = HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
+            status = HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
         } finally {
             if (execStart == -1) {
                 execEnd = -1;
@@ -562,9 +548,9 @@
 
         GlobalConfig.ASTERIX_LOGGER.log(Level.FINE, result);
 
-        response.setStatus(respCode);
-        response.getWriter().print(result);
-        if (response.getWriter().checkError()) {
+        response.setStatus(status);
+        response.writer().print(result);
+        if (response.writer().checkError()) {
             LOGGER.warning("Error flushing output writer");
         }
     }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryStatusApiServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryStatusApiServlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..197a39c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryStatusApiServlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
+
+import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
+import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultReader;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataset.IHyracksDataset;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataset.ResultSetId;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.job.JobId;
+import org.apache.hyracks.client.dataset.HyracksDataset;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class QueryStatusApiServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(QueryStatusApiServlet.class.getName());
+
+    public QueryStatusApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        if (request.getHttpRequest().method() != HttpMethod.GET) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+            return;
+        }
+        response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+        try {
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_HTML, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure setting content type", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
+        String strHandle = request.getParameter("handle");
+        PrintWriter out = response.writer();
+        try {
+            IHyracksDataset hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+            if (hds == null) {
+                synchronized (ctx) {
+                    hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+                    if (hds == null) {
+                        hds = new HyracksDataset((IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR),
+                                ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
+                        ctx.put(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
+            JsonNode handleObj = om.readTree(strHandle);
+            JsonNode handle = handleObj.get("handle");
+            JobId jobId = new JobId(handle.get(0).asLong());
+            ResultSetId rsId = new ResultSetId(handle.get(1).asLong());
+
+            /* TODO(madhusudancs): We need to find a way to LOSSLESS_JSON serialize default format obtained from
+             * metadataProvider in the AQLTranslator and store it as part of the result handle.
+             */
+            ResultReader resultReader = new ResultReader(hds);
+            resultReader.open(jobId, rsId);
+
+            ObjectNode jsonResponse = om.createObjectNode();
+            String status;
+            switch (resultReader.getStatus()) {
+                case RUNNING:
+                    status = "RUNNING";
+                    break;
+                case SUCCESS:
+                    status = "SUCCESS";
+                    break;
+                default:
+                    status = "ERROR";
+                    break;
+            }
+            jsonResponse.put("status", status);
+            out.write(jsonResponse.toString());
+
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Failure handling a request", e);
+            out.println(e.getMessage());
+            e.printStackTrace(out);
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryWebInterfaceServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryWebInterfaceServlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d924cf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/QueryWebInterfaceServlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.apache.asterix.common.config.ExternalProperties;
+import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.AppContextInfo;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class QueryWebInterfaceServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(QueryWebInterfaceServlet.class.getName());
+
+    public QueryWebInterfaceServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        try {
+            if (request.getHttpRequest().method() == HttpMethod.GET) {
+                doGet(request, response);
+            } else if (request.getHttpRequest().method() == HttpMethod.POST) {
+                doPost(response);
+            } else {
+                response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure setting content type", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void doGet(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+        String resourcePath = null;
+        String requestURI = request.getHttpRequest().uri();
+        response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+
+        if ("/".equals(requestURI)) {
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_HTML);
+            resourcePath = "/queryui/queryui.html";
+        } else {
+            resourcePath = requestURI;
+        }
+
+        try (InputStream is = QueryWebInterfaceServlet.class.getResourceAsStream(resourcePath)) {
+            if (is == null) {
+                response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.NOT_FOUND);
+                return;
+            }
+            int i = resourcePath.lastIndexOf('.');
+            if (i >= 0) {
+                String extension = resourcePath.substring(i);
+                String mime = IServlet.ContentType.mime(extension);
+                if (mime != null) {
+                    OutputStream out = response.outputStream();
+                    IServletResponse.setContentType(response, mime);
+                    try {
+                        IOUtils.copy(is, out);
+                    } catch (Exception e) {
+                        LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure copying response", e);
+                    } finally {
+                        if (out != null) {
+                            IOUtils.closeQuietly(out);
+                        }
+                        IOUtils.closeQuietly(is);
+                    }
+                    return;
+                }
+            }
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.BAD_REQUEST);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void doPost(IServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+        IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+        ExternalProperties externalProperties = AppContextInfo.INSTANCE.getExternalProperties();
+        response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
+        ObjectNode obj = om.createObjectNode();
+        try {
+            PrintWriter out = response.writer();
+            obj.put("api_port", String.valueOf(externalProperties.getAPIServerPort()));
+            out.println(obj.toString());
+            return;
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Failure writing response", e);
+        }
+        try {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Failure setting response status", e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static String extension(String path) {
+        int i = path.lastIndexOf('.');
+        return i < 1 ? "" : path.substring(i);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/RestApiServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/RestApiServlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2d1d33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/RestApiServlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
+
+import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
+import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultReader;
+import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultUtil;
+import org.apache.asterix.app.translator.QueryTranslator;
+import org.apache.asterix.common.config.GlobalConfig;
+import org.apache.asterix.common.exceptions.AsterixException;
+import org.apache.asterix.compiler.provider.ILangCompilationProvider;
+import org.apache.asterix.lang.aql.parser.TokenMgrError;
+import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.IParser;
+import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.IParserFactory;
+import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.Statement;
+import org.apache.asterix.metadata.MetadataManager;
+import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutor;
+import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutorFactory;
+import org.apache.asterix.translator.SessionConfig;
+import org.apache.asterix.translator.SessionConfig.OutputFormat;
+import org.apache.hyracks.algebricks.core.algebra.prettyprint.AlgebricksAppendable;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataset.IHyracksDataset;
+import org.apache.hyracks.client.dataset.HyracksDataset;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public abstract class RestApiServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(RestApiServlet.class.getName());
+    private final ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider;
+    private final IParserFactory parserFactory;
+    private final IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory;
+
+    public RestApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths,
+            ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider, IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+        this.compilationProvider = compilationProvider;
+        this.parserFactory = compilationProvider.getParserFactory();
+        this.statementExecutorFactory = statementExecutorFactory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize the Content-Type of the response, and construct a
+     * SessionConfig with the appropriate output writer and output-format
+     * based on the Accept: header and other servlet parameters.
+     */
+    static SessionConfig initResponse(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) throws IOException {
+        IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+
+        // CLEAN_JSON output is the default; most generally useful for a
+        // programmatic HTTP API
+        OutputFormat format = OutputFormat.CLEAN_JSON;
+        // First check the "output" servlet parameter.
+        String output = request.getParameter("output");
+        String accept = request.getHeader("Accept");
+        if (accept == null) {
+            accept = "";
+        }
+        if (output != null) {
+            if ("CSV".equals(output)) {
+                format = OutputFormat.CSV;
+            } else if ("ADM".equals(output)) {
+                format = OutputFormat.ADM;
+            }
+        } else {
+            // Second check the Accept: HTTP header.
+            if (accept.contains("application/x-adm")) {
+                format = OutputFormat.ADM;
+            } else if (accept.contains("text/csv")) {
+                format = OutputFormat.CSV;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // If it's JSON, check for the "lossless" flag
+
+        if (format == OutputFormat.CLEAN_JSON
+                && ("true".equals(request.getParameter("lossless")) || accept.contains("lossless=true"))) {
+            format = OutputFormat.LOSSLESS_JSON;
+        }
+
+        SessionConfig.ResultDecorator handlePrefix =
+                (AlgebricksAppendable app) -> app.append("{ \"").append("handle").append("\": ");
+        SessionConfig.ResultDecorator handlePostfix = (AlgebricksAppendable app) -> app.append(" }");
+
+        SessionConfig sessionConfig =
+                new SessionConfig(response.writer(), format, null, null, handlePrefix, handlePostfix);
+
+        // If it's JSON or ADM, check for the "wrapper-array" flag. Default is
+        // "true" for JSON and "false" for ADM. (Not applicable for CSV.)
+        boolean wrapperArray;
+        switch (format) {
+            case CLEAN_JSON:
+            case LOSSLESS_JSON:
+                wrapperArray = true;
+                break;
+            default:
+                wrapperArray = false;
+                break;
+        }
+        String wrapperParam = request.getParameter("wrapper-array");
+        if (wrapperParam != null) {
+            wrapperArray = Boolean.valueOf(wrapperParam);
+        } else if (accept.contains("wrap-array=true")) {
+            wrapperArray = true;
+        } else if (accept.contains("wrap-array=false")) {
+            wrapperArray = false;
+        }
+        sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_WRAPPER_ARRAY, wrapperArray);
+        // Now that format is set, output the content-type
+        switch (format) {
+            case ADM:
+                IServletResponse.setContentType(response, "application/x-adm");
+                break;
+            case CLEAN_JSON:
+                // No need to reflect "clean-ness" in output type; fall through
+            case LOSSLESS_JSON:
+                IServletResponse.setContentType(response, "application/json");
+                break;
+            case CSV:
+                // Check for header parameter or in Accept:.
+                if ("present".equals(request.getParameter("header")) || accept.contains("header=present")) {
+                    IServletResponse.setContentType(response, "text/csv; header=present");
+                    sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_CSV_HEADER, true);
+                } else {
+                    IServletResponse.setContentType(response, "text/csv; header=absent");
+                }
+                break;
+        }
+        return sessionConfig;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        try {
+            String query = query(request);
+            // enable cross-origin resource sharing
+            response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
+            response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
+
+            SessionConfig sessionConfig = initResponse(request, response);
+            QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery resultDelivery = whichResultDelivery(request);
+            try {
+                response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+                IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
+                IHyracksDataset hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+                if (hds == null) {
+                    synchronized (ctx) {
+                        hds = (IHyracksDataset) ctx.get(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
+                        if (hds == null) {
+                            hds = new HyracksDataset(hcc, ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
+                            ctx.put(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                IParser parser = parserFactory.createParser(query);
+                List<Statement> aqlStatements = parser.parse();
+                validate(aqlStatements);
+                MetadataManager.INSTANCE.init();
+                IStatementExecutor translator =
+                        statementExecutorFactory.create(aqlStatements, sessionConfig, compilationProvider);
+                translator.compileAndExecute(hcc, hds, resultDelivery);
+            } catch (AsterixException | TokenMgrError | org.apache.asterix.aqlplus.parser.TokenMgrError pe) {
+                GlobalConfig.ASTERIX_LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, pe.getMessage(), pe);
+                String errorMessage = ResultUtil.buildParseExceptionMessage(pe, query);
+                ObjectNode errorResp =
+                        ResultUtil.getErrorResponse(2, errorMessage, "", ResultUtil.extractFullStackTrace(pe));
+                sessionConfig.out().write(new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(errorResp));
+                response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                GlobalConfig.ASTERIX_LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, e.getMessage(), e);
+                ResultUtil.apiErrorHandler(sessionConfig.out(), e);
+                response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            }
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure handling request", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+
+    //TODO: Both Get and Post of this API must use the same parameter names
+    private String query(IServletRequest request) {
+        if (request.getHttpRequest().method() == HttpMethod.POST) {
+            return request.getHttpRequest().content().toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        } else {
+            return getQueryParameter(request);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void validate(List<Statement> aqlStatements) throws AsterixException {
+        for (Statement st : aqlStatements) {
+            if ((st.getCategory() & getAllowedCategories()) == 0) {
+                throw new AsterixException(String.format(getErrorMessage(), st.getKind()));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery whichResultDelivery(IServletRequest request) {
+        String mode = request.getParameter("mode");
+        if (mode != null) {
+            if ("asynchronous".equals(mode) || "async".equals(mode)) {
+                return QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery.ASYNC;
+            } else if ("asynchronous-deferred".equals(mode) || "deferred".equals(mode)) {
+                return QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery.DEFERRED;
+            }
+        }
+        return QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery.IMMEDIATE;
+    }
+
+    protected abstract String getQueryParameter(IServletRequest request);
+
+    protected abstract byte getAllowedCategories();
+
+    protected abstract String getErrorMessage();
+}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ShutdownAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ShutdownApiServlet.java
similarity index 68%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ShutdownAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ShutdownApiServlet.java
index d07166e..25be651 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ShutdownAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ShutdownApiServlet.java
@@ -16,42 +16,50 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.config.GlobalConfig;
 import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.ClusterStateManager;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
-public class ShutdownAPIServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class ShutdownApiServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ShutdownApiServlet.class.getName());
     public static final String NODE_ID_KEY = "node_id";
     public static final String NCSERVICE_PID = "ncservice_pid";
     public static final String INI = "ini";
     public static final String PID = "pid";
 
-    @Override
-    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
-            throws ServletException, IOException {
+    public ShutdownApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+    }
 
-        ServletContext context = getServletContext();
-        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
+    @Override
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        if (request.getHttpRequest().method() != HttpMethod.POST) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+            return;
+        }
+        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) ctx.get(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
         boolean terminateNCServices = "true".equalsIgnoreCase(request.getParameter("all"));
         Thread t = new Thread(() -> {
             try {
@@ -61,9 +69,15 @@
             }
         }, "Shutdown Servlet Worker");
 
-        response.setContentType("application/json");
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_ACCEPTED);
+        try {
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON,
+                    IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure handling request", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
+        response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.ACCEPTED);
         ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
         ObjectNode jsonObject = om.createObjectNode();
         try {
@@ -81,7 +95,7 @@
                 }
             }
             jsonObject.set("cluster", clusterState);
-            final PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
+            final PrintWriter writer = response.writer();
             writer.print(om.writeValueAsString(jsonObject));
             writer.close();
         } catch (Exception e) {
@@ -89,4 +103,5 @@
         }
         t.start();
     }
+
 }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/UpdateAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/UpdateApiServlet.java
similarity index 72%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/UpdateAPIServlet.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/UpdateApiServlet.java
index 1c62cdb..1c173d2 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/UpdateAPIServlet.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/UpdateApiServlet.java
@@ -16,25 +16,25 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
 
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.compiler.provider.ILangCompilationProvider;
 import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.Statement;
 import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutorFactory;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
 
-public class UpdateAPIServlet extends RESTAPIServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+public class UpdateApiServlet extends RestApiServlet {
     private static final byte ALLOWED_CATEGORIES = Statement.Category.QUERY | Statement.Category.UPDATE;
 
-    public UpdateAPIServlet(ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider,
-            IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
-        super(compilationProvider, statementExecutorFactory);
+    public UpdateApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths,
+            ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider, IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
+        super(ctx, paths, compilationProvider, statementExecutorFactory);
     }
 
     @Override
-    protected String getQueryParameter(HttpServletRequest request) {
+    protected String getQueryParameter(IServletRequest request) {
         return request.getParameter("statements");
     }
 
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/VersionApiServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/VersionApiServlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5ceccc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/VersionApiServlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.asterix.api.http.server;
+
+import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.AppContextInfo;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.AbstractServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class VersionApiServlet extends AbstractServlet {
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(VersionApiServlet.class.getName());
+
+    public VersionApiServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        super(ctx, paths);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response) {
+        if (request.getHttpRequest().method() != HttpMethod.GET) {
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+            return;
+        }
+        response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.OK);
+        AppContextInfo props = (AppContextInfo) ctx.get(ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR);
+        Map<String, String> buildProperties = props.getBuildProperties().getAllProps();
+        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
+        ObjectNode responseObject = om.createObjectNode();
+        for (Map.Entry<String, String> e : buildProperties.entrySet()) {
+            responseObject.put(e.getKey(), e.getValue());
+        }
+        try {
+            IServletResponse.setContentType(response, IServlet.ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN, IServlet.Encoding.UTF8);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure handling request", e);
+            response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+            return;
+        }
+        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.writer();
+        responseWriter.write(responseObject.toString());
+        responseWriter.flush();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/FeedServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/FeedServlet.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c8019d..0000000
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/FeedServlet.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
-
-import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.io.PrintWriter;
-
-import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-public class FeedServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-
-    @Override
-    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        String resourcePath = null;
-        String requestURI = request.getRequestURI();
-
-        if (requestURI.equals("/")) {
-            response.setContentType("text/html");
-            resourcePath = "/feed/home.html";
-        } else {
-            resourcePath = requestURI;
-        }
-
-        InputStream is = FeedServlet.class.getResourceAsStream(resourcePath);
-        if (is == null) {
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
-            return;
-        }
-
-        // Special handler for font files and .png resources
-        if (resourcePath.endsWith(".png")) {
-
-            BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(is);
-            OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
-            String formatName = "png";
-            response.setContentType("image/png");
-            ImageIO.write(img, formatName, outputStream);
-            outputStream.close();
-            return;
-
-        }
-
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
-        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
-        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
-        String line = br.readLine();
-
-        while (line != null) {
-            sb.append(line + "\n");
-            line = br.readLine();
-        }
-
-        String outStr = null;
-        outStr = sb.toString();
-
-        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
-        out.println(outStr);
-    }
-}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryStatusAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryStatusAPIServlet.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d1b1b2..0000000
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryStatusAPIServlet.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
-
-import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
-import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.PrintWriter;
-
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultReader;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataset.IHyracksDataset;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataset.ResultSetId;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.job.JobId;
-import org.apache.hyracks.client.dataset.HyracksDataset;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
-
-public class QueryStatusAPIServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-
-    @Override
-    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        response.setContentType("text/html");
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        String strHandle = request.getParameter("handle");
-        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
-        ServletContext context = getServletContext();
-        IHyracksClientConnection hcc;
-        IHyracksDataset hds;
-
-        try {
-            synchronized (context) {
-                hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
-
-                hds = (IHyracksDataset) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
-                if (hds == null) {
-                    hds = new HyracksDataset(hcc, ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
-                    context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
-                }
-            }
-            ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
-            JsonNode handleObj = om.readTree(strHandle);
-            JsonNode handle = handleObj.get("handle");
-            JobId jobId = new JobId(handle.get(0).asLong());
-            ResultSetId rsId = new ResultSetId(handle.get(1).asLong());
-
-            /* TODO(madhusudancs): We need to find a way to LOSSLESS_JSON serialize default format obtained from
-             * metadataProvider in the AQLTranslator and store it as part of the result handle.
-             */
-            ResultReader resultReader = new ResultReader(hds);
-            resultReader.open(jobId, rsId);
-
-            ObjectNode jsonResponse = om.createObjectNode();
-            String status;
-            switch (resultReader.getStatus()) {
-                case RUNNING:
-                    status = "RUNNING";
-                    break;
-                case FAILED:
-                    status = "ERROR";
-                    break;
-                case SUCCESS:
-                    status = "SUCCESS";
-                    break;
-                default:
-                    status = "ERROR";
-                    break;
-            }
-            jsonResponse.put("status", status);
-            out.write(jsonResponse.toString());
-
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            out.println(e.getMessage());
-            e.printStackTrace(out);
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryWebInterfaceServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryWebInterfaceServlet.java
deleted file mode 100644
index d3e5556..0000000
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryWebInterfaceServlet.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,132 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
-import org.apache.asterix.common.config.ExternalProperties;
-import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.AppContextInfo;
-import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
-
-public class QueryWebInterfaceServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-    private static final HashMap<String, String> fileMimePair = new HashMap<>();
-    private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(QueryWebInterfaceServlet.class);
-
-    public QueryWebInterfaceServlet() {
-        fileMimePair.put("png", "image/png");
-        fileMimePair.put("eot", "application/vnd.ms-fontobject");
-        fileMimePair.put("svg", "image/svg+xml\t");
-        fileMimePair.put("ttf", "application/x-font-ttf");
-        fileMimePair.put("woff", "application/x-font-woff");
-        fileMimePair.put("woff2", "application/x-font-woff");
-        fileMimePair.put("html", "text/html");
-        fileMimePair.put("css", "text/css");
-        fileMimePair.put("js", "application/javascript");
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException {
-        String resourcePath = null;
-        String requestURI = request.getRequestURI();
-
-        if ("/".equals(requestURI)) {
-            response.setContentType("text/html");
-            resourcePath = "/queryui/queryui.html";
-        } else {
-            resourcePath = requestURI;
-        }
-
-        try (InputStream is = APIServlet.class.getResourceAsStream(resourcePath)) {
-            if (is == null) {
-                try {
-                    response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
-                } catch (IllegalStateException | IOException e) {
-                    LOG.error(e);
-                }
-                return;
-            }
-            // Multiple MIME type support
-            for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : fileMimePair.entrySet()) {
-                OutputStream out = null;
-                if (resourcePath.endsWith(entry.getKey())) {
-                    response.setContentType(entry.getValue());
-                    try {
-                        out = response.getOutputStream();
-                        IOUtils.copy(is, out);
-
-                    } catch (IOException e) {
-                        LOG.info(e);
-                    } finally {
-
-                        if (out != null) {
-                            IOUtils.closeQuietly(out);
-                        }
-                        IOUtils.closeQuietly(is);
-
-                    }
-                    return;
-                }
-            }
-            try {
-                response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST);
-            } catch (IllegalStateException | IOException e) {
-                LOG.error(e);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        response.setContentType("application/json");
-        ExternalProperties externalProperties = AppContextInfo.INSTANCE.getExternalProperties();
-        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
-        ObjectNode obj = om.createObjectNode();
-        try {
-            PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
-            obj.put("api_port", String.valueOf(externalProperties.getAPIServerPort()));
-            out.println(obj.toString());
-            return;
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            LOG.error(e);
-        }
-
-        try {
-            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
-        } catch (IllegalStateException | IOException e) {
-            LOG.error(e);
-        }
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/RESTAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/RESTAPIServlet.java
deleted file mode 100644
index dd030b0..0000000
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/RESTAPIServlet.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,252 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
-
-import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
-import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.logging.Level;
-
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultReader;
-import org.apache.asterix.app.result.ResultUtil;
-import org.apache.asterix.app.translator.QueryTranslator;
-import org.apache.asterix.common.config.GlobalConfig;
-import org.apache.asterix.common.exceptions.AsterixException;
-import org.apache.asterix.compiler.provider.ILangCompilationProvider;
-import org.apache.asterix.lang.aql.parser.TokenMgrError;
-import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.IParser;
-import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.IParserFactory;
-import org.apache.asterix.lang.common.base.Statement;
-import org.apache.asterix.metadata.MetadataManager;
-import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutor;
-import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutorFactory;
-import org.apache.asterix.translator.SessionConfig;
-import org.apache.asterix.translator.SessionConfig.OutputFormat;
-import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
-import org.apache.hyracks.algebricks.core.algebra.prettyprint.AlgebricksAppendable;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
-import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataset.IHyracksDataset;
-import org.apache.hyracks.client.dataset.HyracksDataset;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
-
-abstract class RESTAPIServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-
-    private final ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider;
-    private final IParserFactory parserFactory;
-    private final transient IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory;
-
-    public RESTAPIServlet(ILangCompilationProvider compilationProvider,
-            IStatementExecutorFactory statementExecutorFactory) {
-        this.compilationProvider = compilationProvider;
-        this.parserFactory = compilationProvider.getParserFactory();
-        this.statementExecutorFactory = statementExecutorFactory;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Initialize the Content-Type of the response, and construct a
-     * SessionConfig with the appropriate output writer and output-format
-     * based on the Accept: header and other servlet parameters.
-     */
-    static SessionConfig initResponse(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-
-        // CLEAN_JSON output is the default; most generally useful for a
-        // programmatic HTTP API
-        OutputFormat format = OutputFormat.CLEAN_JSON;
-
-        // First check the "output" servlet parameter.
-        String output = request.getParameter("output");
-        String accept = request.getHeader("Accept");
-        if (accept == null) {
-            accept = "";
-        }
-        if (output != null) {
-            if (output.equals("CSV")) {
-                format = OutputFormat.CSV;
-            } else if (output.equals("ADM")) {
-                format = OutputFormat.ADM;
-            }
-        } else {
-            // Second check the Accept: HTTP header.
-            if (accept.contains("application/x-adm")) {
-                format = OutputFormat.ADM;
-            } else if (accept.contains("text/csv")) {
-                format = OutputFormat.CSV;
-            }
-        }
-
-        // If it's JSON, check for the "lossless" flag
-
-        if (format == OutputFormat.CLEAN_JSON
-                && ("true".equals(request.getParameter("lossless")) || accept.contains("lossless=true"))) {
-            format = OutputFormat.LOSSLESS_JSON;
-        }
-
-        SessionConfig.ResultDecorator handlePrefix = (AlgebricksAppendable app) -> app.append("{ \"").append("handle")
-                .append("\": ");
-        SessionConfig.ResultDecorator handlePostfix = (AlgebricksAppendable app) -> app.append(" }");
-
-        SessionConfig sessionConfig = new SessionConfig(response.getWriter(), format, null, null, handlePrefix,
-                handlePostfix);
-
-        // If it's JSON or ADM, check for the "wrapper-array" flag. Default is
-        // "true" for JSON and "false" for ADM. (Not applicable for CSV.)
-        boolean wrapper_array;
-        switch (format) {
-            case CLEAN_JSON:
-            case LOSSLESS_JSON:
-                wrapper_array = true;
-                break;
-            default:
-                wrapper_array = false;
-                break;
-        }
-        String wrapper_param = request.getParameter("wrapper-array");
-        if (wrapper_param != null) {
-            wrapper_array = Boolean.valueOf(wrapper_param);
-        } else if (accept.contains("wrap-array=true")) {
-            wrapper_array = true;
-        } else if (accept.contains("wrap-array=false")) {
-            wrapper_array = false;
-        }
-        sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_WRAPPER_ARRAY, wrapper_array);
-
-        // Now that format is set, output the content-type
-        switch (format) {
-            case ADM:
-                response.setContentType("application/x-adm");
-                break;
-            case CLEAN_JSON:
-                // No need to reflect "clean-ness" in output type; fall through
-            case LOSSLESS_JSON:
-                response.setContentType("application/json");
-                break;
-            case CSV: {
-                // Check for header parameter or in Accept:.
-                if ("present".equals(request.getParameter("header")) || accept.contains("header=present")) {
-                    response.setContentType("text/csv; header=present");
-                    sessionConfig.set(SessionConfig.FORMAT_CSV_HEADER, true);
-                } else {
-                    response.setContentType("text/csv; header=absent");
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        return sessionConfig;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
-            throws ServletException, IOException {
-        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
-        IOUtils.copy(request.getInputStream(), sw, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
-        String query = sw.toString();
-        handleRequest(request, response, query);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        String query = getQueryParameter(request);
-        handleRequest(request, response, query);
-    }
-
-    public void handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, String query)
-            throws IOException {
-        // enable cross-origin resource sharing
-        response.addHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
-        response.addHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
-
-        SessionConfig sessionConfig = initResponse(request, response);
-        QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery resultDelivery = whichResultDelivery(request);
-
-        ServletContext context = getServletContext();
-        IHyracksClientConnection hcc;
-        IHyracksDataset hds;
-
-        try {
-            synchronized (context) {
-                hcc = (IHyracksClientConnection) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR);
-                hds = (IHyracksDataset) context.getAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR);
-                if (hds == null) {
-                    hds = new HyracksDataset(hcc, ResultReader.FRAME_SIZE, ResultReader.NUM_READERS);
-                    context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_DATASET_ATTR, hds);
-                }
-            }
-
-            IParser parser = parserFactory.createParser(query);
-            List<Statement> aqlStatements = parser.parse();
-            if (!containsForbiddenStatements(aqlStatements)) {
-                MetadataManager.INSTANCE.init();
-                IStatementExecutor translator =
-                        statementExecutorFactory.create(aqlStatements, sessionConfig, compilationProvider);
-                translator.compileAndExecute(hcc, hds, resultDelivery);
-            }
-        } catch (AsterixException | TokenMgrError | org.apache.asterix.aqlplus.parser.TokenMgrError pe) {
-            GlobalConfig.ASTERIX_LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, pe.getMessage(), pe);
-            String errorMessage = ResultUtil.buildParseExceptionMessage(pe, query);
-            ObjectNode errorResp =
-                    ResultUtil.getErrorResponse(2, errorMessage, "", ResultUtil.extractFullStackTrace(pe));
-            sessionConfig.out().write(new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(errorResp));
-            response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            GlobalConfig.ASTERIX_LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, e.getMessage(), e);
-            ResultUtil.apiErrorHandler(sessionConfig.out(), e);
-            response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
-        }
-    }
-
-    private boolean containsForbiddenStatements(List<Statement> aqlStatements) throws AsterixException {
-        for (Statement st : aqlStatements) {
-            if ((st.getCategory() & getAllowedCategories()) == 0) {
-                throw new AsterixException(String.format(getErrorMessage(), st.getKind()));
-            }
-        }
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    protected QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery whichResultDelivery(HttpServletRequest request) {
-        String mode = request.getParameter("mode");
-        if (mode != null) {
-            if ("asynchronous".equals(mode) || "async".equals(mode)) {
-                return QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery.ASYNC;
-            } else if ("asynchronous-deferred".equals(mode) || "deferred".equals(mode)) {
-                return QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery.DEFERRED;
-            }
-        }
-        return QueryTranslator.ResultDelivery.IMMEDIATE;
-    }
-
-    protected abstract String getQueryParameter(HttpServletRequest request);
-
-    protected abstract byte getAllowedCategories();
-
-    protected abstract String getErrorMessage();
-}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/VersionAPIServlet.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/VersionAPIServlet.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 398a355..0000000
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/VersionAPIServlet.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
-import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.AppContextInfo;
-
-import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR;
-
-public class VersionAPIServlet extends HttpServlet {
-    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-
-    @Override
-    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
-        ServletContext context = getServletContext();
-        AppContextInfo props = (AppContextInfo) context.getAttribute(ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR);
-        Map<String, String> buildProperties = props.getBuildProperties().getAllProps();
-        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
-        ObjectNode responseObject = om.createObjectNode();
-        for (Map.Entry<String, String> e : buildProperties.entrySet()) {
-            responseObject.put(e.getKey(), e.getValue());
-        }
-        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
-        PrintWriter responseWriter = response.getWriter();
-        responseWriter.write(responseObject.toString());
-        response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
-        responseWriter.flush();
-    }
-}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/external/FeedWorkCollection.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/external/FeedWorkCollection.java
index f42beb3..6be7af9 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/external/FeedWorkCollection.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/external/FeedWorkCollection.java
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
                     DataverseDecl dataverseDecl = new DataverseDecl(
                             new Identifier(request.getReceivingFeedId().getDataverse()));
                     SubscribeFeedStatement subscribeStmt = new SubscribeFeedStatement(locations, request);
-                    List<Statement> statements = new ArrayList<Statement>();
+                    List<Statement> statements = new ArrayList<>();
                     statements.add(dataverseDecl);
                     statements.add(subscribeStmt);
                     IStatementExecutor translator = qtFactory.create(statements, pc, compilationProvider);
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/ResultUtil.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/ResultUtil.java
index 80b8ffe..3afb653 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/ResultUtil.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/ResultUtil.java
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.APIServlet;
 import org.apache.asterix.om.types.ARecordType;
 import org.apache.asterix.translator.IStatementExecutor.Stats;
 import org.apache.asterix.translator.SessionConfig;
@@ -43,8 +41,9 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.algebricks.core.algebra.prettyprint.AlgebricksAppendable;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 
 public class ResultUtil {
@@ -244,7 +243,7 @@
         String errorTemplate = defaultTemplate;
         try {
             String resourcePath = "/webui/errortemplate_message.html";
-            InputStream is = APIServlet.class.getResourceAsStream(resourcePath);
+            InputStream is = ResultUtil.class.getResourceAsStream(resourcePath);
             InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
             StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
             BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/translator/QueryTranslator.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/translator/QueryTranslator.java
index f039271..d60ed37 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/translator/QueryTranslator.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/translator/QueryTranslator.java
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 import org.apache.asterix.active.IActiveEntityEventsListener;
 import org.apache.asterix.algebra.extension.IExtensionStatement;
 import org.apache.asterix.api.common.APIFramework;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.APIServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.ApiServlet;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.external.ExternalIndexingOperations;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.external.FeedJoint;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.external.FeedOperations;
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
         try {
             for (Statement stmt : statements) {
                 if (sessionConfig.is(SessionConfig.FORMAT_HTML)) {
-                    sessionConfig.out().println(APIServlet.HTML_STATEMENT_SEPARATOR);
+                    sessionConfig.out().println(ApiServlet.HTML_STATEMENT_SEPARATOR);
                 }
                 validateOperation(activeDefaultDataverse, stmt);
                 rewriteStatement(stmt); // Rewrite the statement's AST.
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/drivers/AsterixWebServer.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/drivers/AsterixWebServer.java
deleted file mode 100644
index f0eac39..0000000
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/drivers/AsterixWebServer.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.asterix.drivers;
-
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.APIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.app.translator.DefaultStatementExecutorFactory;
-import org.apache.asterix.compiler.provider.AqlCompilationProvider;
-import org.apache.asterix.compiler.provider.SqlppCompilationProvider;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder;
-
-public class AsterixWebServer {
-    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
-        Server server = new Server(8080);
-        ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
-        context.setContextPath("/");
-        server.setHandler(context);
-
-        context.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new APIServlet(new AqlCompilationProvider(),
-                new SqlppCompilationProvider(), new DefaultStatementExecutorFactory())), "/*");
-        server.start();
-        server.join();
-    }
-}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/CCApplicationEntryPoint.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/CCApplicationEntryPoint.java
index 5756e7d..3a8852e 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/CCApplicationEntryPoint.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/CCApplicationEntryPoint.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR;
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 
-import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
@@ -29,24 +28,24 @@
 import javax.servlet.Servlet;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.active.ActiveLifecycleListener;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.APIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ClusterAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ClusterCCDetailsAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ClusterNodeDetailsAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ConnectorAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.DDLAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.DiagnosticsAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.FeedServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.FullAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.QueryAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.QueryResultAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.QueryServiceServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.QueryStatusAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.QueryWebInterfaceServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.ApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.FullApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.ClusterApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.ClusterControllerDetailsApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.ConnectorApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.DdlApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.DiagnosticsApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.FeedServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.NodeControllerDetailsApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.QueryApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.QueryResultApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.QueryServiceServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.QueryStatusApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.QueryWebInterfaceServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.ShutdownApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.UpdateApiServlet;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.VersionApiServlet;
 import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ShutdownAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.UpdateAPIServlet;
-import org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.VersionAPIServlet;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.cc.CompilerExtensionManager;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.cc.ResourceIdManager;
 import org.apache.asterix.app.external.ExternalLibraryUtils;
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@
 import org.apache.asterix.common.config.ExternalProperties;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.config.MetadataProperties;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.library.ILibraryManager;
-import org.apache.asterix.common.utils.ServletUtil.Servlets;
+import org.apache.asterix.common.utils.LetUtil.Lets;
 import org.apache.asterix.external.library.ExternalLibraryManager;
 import org.apache.asterix.messaging.CCMessageBroker;
 import org.apache.asterix.metadata.MetadataManager;
@@ -73,7 +72,8 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.messages.IMessageBroker;
 import org.apache.hyracks.control.cc.ClusterControllerService;
 import org.apache.hyracks.control.common.controllers.CCConfig;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.HttpServer;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServlet;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletMapping;
@@ -81,13 +81,11 @@
 public class CCApplicationEntryPoint implements ICCApplicationEntryPoint {
 
     private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(CCApplicationEntryPoint.class.getName());
-
-    private List<Server> servers;
-
     private static IAsterixStateProxy proxy;
     protected ICCApplicationContext appCtx;
     protected CompilerExtensionManager ccExtensionManager;
     private IJobCapacityController jobCapacityController;
+    protected WebManager webManager;
 
     @Override
     public void start(ICCApplicationContext ccAppCtx, String[] args) throws Exception {
@@ -124,14 +122,11 @@
         AppContextInfo.INSTANCE.getCCApplicationContext()
                 .addJobLifecycleListener(ActiveLifecycleListener.INSTANCE);
 
-        servers = configureServers();
-
-        for (Server server : servers) {
-            server.start();
-        }
-
+        // create event loop groups
+        webManager = new WebManager();
+        configureServers();
+        webManager.start();
         ClusterManagerProvider.getClusterManager().registerSubscriber(GlobalRecoveryManager.instance());
-
         ccAppCtx.addClusterLifecycleListener(ClusterLifecycleListener.INSTANCE);
         ccAppCtx.setMessageBroker(messageBroker);
 
@@ -142,15 +137,11 @@
         return AppContextInfo.INSTANCE.getExtensionProperties().getExtensions();
     }
 
-    protected List<Server> configureServers() throws Exception {
-        ExternalProperties externalProperties = AppContextInfo.INSTANCE.getExternalProperties();
-
-        List<Server> serverList = new ArrayList<>();
-        serverList.add(setupWebServer(externalProperties));
-        serverList.add(setupJSONAPIServer(externalProperties));
-        serverList.add(setupFeedServer(externalProperties));
-        serverList.add(setupQueryWebServer(externalProperties));
-        return serverList;
+    protected void configureServers() throws Exception {
+        webManager.add(setupWebServer(AppContextInfo.INSTANCE.getExternalProperties()));
+        webManager.add(setupJSONAPIServer(AppContextInfo.INSTANCE.getExternalProperties()));
+        webManager.add(setupFeedServer(AppContextInfo.INSTANCE.getExternalProperties()));
+        webManager.add(setupQueryWebServer(AppContextInfo.INSTANCE.getExternalProperties()));
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -160,14 +151,7 @@
             LOGGER.info("Stopping Asterix cluster controller");
         }
         AsterixStateProxy.unregisterRemoteObject();
-        // Stop servers
-        for (Server server : servers) {
-            server.stop();
-        }
-        // Make sure servers are stopped before proceeding
-        for (Server server : servers) {
-            server.join();
-        }
+        webManager.stop();
     }
 
     protected IHyracksClientConnection getNewHyracksClientConnection() throws Exception {
@@ -176,77 +160,62 @@
         return new HyracksConnection(strIP, port);
     }
 
-    protected Server setupWebServer(ExternalProperties externalProperties) throws Exception {
-
-        Server webServer = new Server(externalProperties.getWebInterfacePort());
-
-        ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
-        context.setContextPath("/");
-
+    protected HttpServer setupWebServer(ExternalProperties externalProperties) throws Exception {
+        HttpServer webServer = new HttpServer(webManager.getBosses(), webManager.getWorkers(), externalProperties
+                .getWebInterfacePort());
         IHyracksClientConnection hcc = getNewHyracksClientConnection();
-        context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
-
-        webServer.setHandler(context);
-        context.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new APIServlet(ccExtensionManager.getAqlCompilationProvider(),
-                ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(), ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory())),
-                "/*");
-
+        webServer.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
+        webServer.addLet(new ApiServlet(webServer.ctx(), new String[] { "/*" }, ccExtensionManager
+                .getAqlCompilationProvider(), ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(), ccExtensionManager
+                        .getQueryTranslatorFactory()));
         return webServer;
     }
 
-    protected Server setupJSONAPIServer(ExternalProperties externalProperties) throws Exception {
-        Server jsonAPIServer = new Server(externalProperties.getAPIServerPort());
-
-        ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
-        context.setContextPath("/");
-
+    protected HttpServer setupJSONAPIServer(ExternalProperties externalProperties) throws Exception {
+        HttpServer jsonAPIServer = new HttpServer(webManager.getBosses(), webManager.getWorkers(), externalProperties
+                .getAPIServerPort());
         IHyracksClientConnection hcc = getNewHyracksClientConnection();
-        context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
-        context.setAttribute(ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR, AppContextInfo.INSTANCE);
-        context.setAttribute(ServletConstants.EXECUTOR_SERVICE,
+        jsonAPIServer.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
+        jsonAPIServer.setAttribute(ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR, AppContextInfo.INSTANCE);
+        jsonAPIServer.setAttribute(ServletConstants.EXECUTOR_SERVICE,
                 ((ClusterControllerService) appCtx.getControllerService()).getExecutor());
 
-        jsonAPIServer.setHandler(context);
-
         // AQL rest APIs.
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.AQL_QUERY);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.AQL_UPDATE);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.AQL_DDL);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.AQL);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.AQL_QUERY);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.AQL_UPDATE);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.AQL_DDL);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.AQL);
 
         // SQL+x+ rest APIs.
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.SQLPP_QUERY);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.SQLPP_UPDATE);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.SQLPP_DDL);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.SQLPP);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.SQLPP_QUERY);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.SQLPP_UPDATE);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.SQLPP_DDL);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.SQLPP);
 
         // Other APIs.
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.QUERY_STATUS);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.QUERY_RESULT);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.QUERY_SERVICE);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.CONNECTOR);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.SHUTDOWN);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.VERSION);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.CLUSTER_STATE);
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.CLUSTER_STATE_NODE_DETAIL); // this must not precede add of CLUSTER_STATE
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.CLUSTER_STATE_CC_DETAIL); // this must not precede add of CLUSTER_STATE
-        addServlet(context, Servlets.DIAGNOSTICS);
-
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.QUERY_STATUS);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.QUERY_RESULT);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.QUERY_SERVICE);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.CONNECTOR);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.SHUTDOWN);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.VERSION);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.CLUSTER_STATE);
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.CLUSTER_STATE_NODE_DETAIL); // this must not precede add of CLUSTER_STATE
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.CLUSTER_STATE_CC_DETAIL); // this must not precede add of CLUSTER_STATE
+        addLet(jsonAPIServer, Lets.DIAGNOSTICS);
         return jsonAPIServer;
     }
 
-    protected Server setupQueryWebServer(ExternalProperties externalProperties) throws Exception {
+    protected void addLet(HttpServer server, Lets let) {
+        server.addLet(createServLet(server, let, let.getPath()));
+    }
 
-        Server queryWebServer = new Server(externalProperties.getQueryWebInterfacePort());
-
-        ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
-        context.setContextPath("/");
-
+    protected HttpServer setupQueryWebServer(ExternalProperties externalProperties) throws Exception {
+        HttpServer queryWebServer = new HttpServer(webManager.getBosses(), webManager.getWorkers(), externalProperties
+                .getQueryWebInterfacePort());
         IHyracksClientConnection hcc = getNewHyracksClientConnection();
-        context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
-
-        queryWebServer.setHandler(context);
-        context.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new QueryWebInterfaceServlet()), "/*");
+        queryWebServer.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
+        queryWebServer.addLet(new QueryWebInterfaceServlet(queryWebServer.ctx(), new String[] { "/*" }));
         return queryWebServer;
     }
 
@@ -259,77 +228,66 @@
         context.getServletHandler().addServletMapping(mapping);
     }
 
-    protected void addServlet(ServletContextHandler context, Servlets key) {
-        addServlet(context, createServlet(key), key.getPath());
+    protected HttpServer setupFeedServer(ExternalProperties externalProperties) throws Exception {
+        HttpServer feedServer = new HttpServer(webManager.getBosses(), webManager.getWorkers(), externalProperties
+                .getFeedServerPort());
+        feedServer.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, getNewHyracksClientConnection());
+        feedServer.addLet(new FeedServlet(feedServer.ctx(), new String[] { "/" }));
+        return feedServer;
     }
 
-    protected Servlet createServlet(Servlets key) {
+    protected IServlet createServLet(HttpServer server, Lets key, String... paths) {
         switch (key) {
             case AQL:
-                return new FullAPIServlet(ccExtensionManager.getAqlCompilationProvider(),
+                return new FullApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths, ccExtensionManager.getAqlCompilationProvider(),
                         ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
             case AQL_QUERY:
-                return new QueryAPIServlet(ccExtensionManager.getAqlCompilationProvider(),
+                return new QueryApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths, ccExtensionManager.getAqlCompilationProvider(),
                         ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
             case AQL_UPDATE:
-                return new UpdateAPIServlet(ccExtensionManager.getAqlCompilationProvider(),
+                return new UpdateApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths, ccExtensionManager.getAqlCompilationProvider(),
                         ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
             case AQL_DDL:
-                return new DDLAPIServlet(ccExtensionManager.getAqlCompilationProvider(),
+                return new DdlApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths, ccExtensionManager.getAqlCompilationProvider(),
                         ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
             case SQLPP:
-                return new FullAPIServlet(ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(),
+                return new FullApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths, ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(),
                         ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
             case SQLPP_QUERY:
-                return new QueryAPIServlet(ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(),
+                return new QueryApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths, ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(),
                         ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
             case SQLPP_UPDATE:
-                return new UpdateAPIServlet(ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(),
+                return new UpdateApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths, ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(),
                         ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
             case SQLPP_DDL:
-                return new DDLAPIServlet(ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(),
+                return new DdlApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths, ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(),
                         ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
             case QUERY_STATUS:
-                return new QueryStatusAPIServlet();
+                return new QueryStatusApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths);
             case QUERY_RESULT:
-                return new QueryResultAPIServlet();
+                return new QueryResultApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths);
             case QUERY_SERVICE:
-                return new QueryServiceServlet(ccExtensionManager.getSqlppCompilationProvider(),
-                        ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
+                return new QueryServiceServlet(server.ctx(), paths, ccExtensionManager
+                        .getSqlppCompilationProvider(), ccExtensionManager.getQueryTranslatorFactory());
             case CONNECTOR:
-                return new ConnectorAPIServlet();
+                return new ConnectorApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths);
             case SHUTDOWN:
-                return new ShutdownAPIServlet();
+                return new ShutdownApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths);
             case VERSION:
-                return new VersionAPIServlet();
+                return new VersionApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths);
             case CLUSTER_STATE:
-                return new ClusterAPIServlet();
+                return new ClusterApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths);
             case CLUSTER_STATE_NODE_DETAIL:
-                return new ClusterNodeDetailsAPIServlet();
+                return new NodeControllerDetailsApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths);
             case CLUSTER_STATE_CC_DETAIL:
-                return new ClusterCCDetailsAPIServlet();
+                return new ClusterControllerDetailsApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths);
             case DIAGNOSTICS:
-                return new DiagnosticsAPIServlet();
+                return new DiagnosticsApiServlet(server.ctx(), paths);
             default:
                 throw new IllegalStateException(String.valueOf(key));
         }
     }
 
-    protected Server setupFeedServer(ExternalProperties externalProperties) throws Exception {
-        Server feedServer = new Server(externalProperties.getFeedServerPort());
-
-        ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
-        context.setContextPath("/");
-
-        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = getNewHyracksClientConnection();
-        context.setAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, hcc);
-
-        feedServer.setHandler(context);
-        context.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new FeedServlet()), "/");
-
-        return feedServer;
-    }
-
     @Override
     public void startupCompleted() throws Exception {
         ClusterManagerProvider.getClusterManager().notifyStartupCompleted();
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/WebManager.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/WebManager.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..070a530
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/WebManager.java
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.HttpServer;
+
+import io.netty.channel.EventLoopGroup;
+import io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup;
+
+public class WebManager {
+    private final List<HttpServer> servers;
+    private final EventLoopGroup bosses;
+    private final EventLoopGroup workers;
+
+    public WebManager() {
+        servers = new ArrayList<>();
+        bosses = new NioEventLoopGroup(1);
+        workers = new NioEventLoopGroup();
+    }
+
+    public List<HttpServer> getServers() {
+        return servers;
+    }
+
+    public EventLoopGroup getBosses() {
+        return bosses;
+    }
+
+    public EventLoopGroup getWorkers() {
+        return workers;
+    }
+
+    public void start() throws Exception {
+        for (HttpServer server : servers) {
+            server.start();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void stop() throws Exception {
+        for (HttpServer server : servers) {
+            server.stop();
+        }
+        workers.shutdownGracefully().sync();
+        bosses.shutdownGracefully().sync();
+    }
+
+    public void add(HttpServer server) {
+        servers.add(server);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ConnectorAPIServletTest.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ConnectorApiLetTest.java
similarity index 84%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ConnectorAPIServletTest.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ConnectorApiLetTest.java
index 41785e5..b1fdab5 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ConnectorAPIServletTest.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/ConnectorApiLetTest.java
@@ -19,25 +19,16 @@
 
 package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
 
-import static org.mockito.Matchers.anyString;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.spy;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
-import junit.extensions.PA;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.ConnectorApiServlet;
 import org.apache.asterix.metadata.MetadataManager;
 import org.apache.asterix.metadata.MetadataTransactionContext;
 import org.apache.asterix.metadata.declared.MetadataProvider;
@@ -52,10 +43,20 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.comm.NetworkAddress;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.io.FileSplit;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.io.ManagedFileSplit;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-public class ConnectorAPIServletTest {
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpRequest;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import junit.extensions.PA;
+
+public class ConnectorApiLetTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testGet() throws Exception {
@@ -63,27 +64,27 @@
         SqlppExecutionTest.setUp();
 
         // Configures a test connector api servlet.
-        ConnectorAPIServlet servlet = spy(new ConnectorAPIServlet());
-        ServletConfig mockServletConfig = mock(ServletConfig.class);
-        servlet.init(mockServletConfig);
+        ConnectorApiServlet let = new ConnectorApiServlet(new ConcurrentHashMap<>(), new String[] { "/" });
         Map<String, NodeControllerInfo> nodeMap = new HashMap<>();
         ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         PrintWriter outputWriter = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
 
         // Creates mocks.
-        ServletContext mockContext = mock(ServletContext.class);
         IHyracksClientConnection mockHcc = mock(IHyracksClientConnection.class);
         NodeControllerInfo mockInfo1 = mock(NodeControllerInfo.class);
         NodeControllerInfo mockInfo2 = mock(NodeControllerInfo.class);
-        HttpServletRequest mockRequest = mock(HttpServletRequest.class);
-        HttpServletResponse mockResponse = mock(HttpServletResponse.class);
+        IServletRequest mockRequest = mock(IServletRequest.class);
+        IServletResponse mockResponse = mock(IServletResponse.class);
+        FullHttpRequest mockHttpRequest = mock(FullHttpRequest.class);
 
+        // Put stuff in let map
+        let.ctx().put(ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, mockHcc);
         // Sets up mock returns.
-        when(servlet.getServletContext()).thenReturn(mockContext);
+        when(mockRequest.getHttpRequest()).thenReturn(mockHttpRequest);
+        when(mockHttpRequest.method()).thenReturn(HttpMethod.GET);
         when(mockRequest.getParameter("dataverseName")).thenReturn("Metadata");
         when(mockRequest.getParameter("datasetName")).thenReturn("Dataset");
-        when(mockResponse.getWriter()).thenReturn(outputWriter);
-        when(mockContext.getAttribute(anyString())).thenReturn(mockHcc);
+        when(mockResponse.writer()).thenReturn(outputWriter);
         when(mockHcc.getNodeControllerInfos()).thenReturn(nodeMap);
         when(mockInfo1.getNetworkAddress()).thenReturn(new NetworkAddress("127.0.0.1", 3099));
         when(mockInfo2.getNetworkAddress()).thenReturn(new NetworkAddress("127.0.0.2", 3099));
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@
         // Calls ConnectorAPIServlet.formResponseObject.
         nodeMap.put("asterix_nc1", mockInfo1);
         nodeMap.put("asterix_nc2", mockInfo2);
-        servlet.doGet(mockRequest, mockResponse);
+        let.handle(mockRequest, mockResponse);
 
         // Constructs the actual response.
         ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@
         String primaryKey = actualResponse.get("keys").asText();
         Assert.assertEquals("DataverseName,DatasetName", primaryKey);
         ARecordType recordType = (ARecordType) JSONDeserializerForTypes
-                .convertFromJSON((ObjectNode) actualResponse.get("type"));
+                .convertFromJSON(actualResponse.get("type"));
         Assert.assertEquals(getMetadataRecordType("Metadata", "Dataset"), recordType);
 
         // Checks the correctness of results.
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@
 
     @Test
     public void testFormResponseObject() throws Exception {
-        ConnectorAPIServlet servlet = new ConnectorAPIServlet();
+        ConnectorApiServlet let = new ConnectorApiServlet(new ConcurrentHashMap<>(), new String[] { "/" });
         ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
         ObjectNode actualResponse = om.createObjectNode();
         FileSplit[] splits = new FileSplit[2];
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@
         // Calls ConnectorAPIServlet.formResponseObject.
         nodeMap.put("asterix_nc1", mockInfo1);
         nodeMap.put("asterix_nc2", mockInfo2);
-        PA.invokeMethod(servlet, "formResponseObject(" + ObjectNode.class.getName() + ", " + FileSplit.class.getName()
+        PA.invokeMethod(let, "formResponseObject(" + ObjectNode.class.getName() + ", " + FileSplit.class.getName()
                 + "[], " + ARecordType.class.getName() + ", " + String.class.getName() + ", boolean, " + Map.class
                         .getName() + ")", actualResponse, splits, recordType, primaryKey, true, nodeMap);
         // Constructs expected response.
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryServiceServletTest.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryServiceLetTest.java
similarity index 95%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryServiceServletTest.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryServiceLetTest.java
index f4889a0..7b7c0d2 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryServiceServletTest.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/QueryServiceLetTest.java
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@
 
 package org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet;
 
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.QueryServiceServlet;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-public class QueryServiceServletTest {
+public class QueryServiceLetTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testTimeUnitFormatNanos() throws Exception {
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/VersionAPIServletTest.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/VersionApiLetTest.java
similarity index 80%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/VersionAPIServletTest.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/VersionApiLetTest.java
index da0ec0c..936b717 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/VersionAPIServletTest.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/servlet/VersionApiLetTest.java
@@ -22,31 +22,31 @@
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR;
 import static org.apache.asterix.api.http.servlet.ServletConstants.HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.spy;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
 
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.apache.asterix.api.http.server.VersionApiServlet;
 import org.apache.asterix.common.config.BuildProperties;
 import org.apache.asterix.runtime.util.AppContextInfo;
 import org.apache.asterix.test.runtime.SqlppExecutionTest;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletRequest;
+import org.apache.hyracks.http.server.IServletResponse;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-public class VersionAPIServletTest {
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpRequest;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+
+public class VersionApiLetTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testGet() throws Exception {
@@ -54,26 +54,26 @@
         SqlppExecutionTest.setUp();
 
         // Configures a test version api servlet.
-        VersionAPIServlet servlet = spy(new VersionAPIServlet());
-        ServletConfig mockServletConfig = mock(ServletConfig.class);
-        servlet.init(mockServletConfig);
-        Map<String, String> propMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
+        VersionApiServlet servlet = new VersionApiServlet(new ConcurrentHashMap<>(), new String[] { "/" });
+        Map<String, String> propMap = new HashMap<>();
         ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         PrintWriter outputWriter = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
 
         // Creates mocks.
-        ServletContext mockContext = mock(ServletContext.class);
         AppContextInfo mockCtx = mock(AppContextInfo.class);
-        HttpServletRequest mockRequest = mock(HttpServletRequest.class);
+        IServletRequest mockRequest = mock(IServletRequest.class);
         IHyracksClientConnection mockHcc = mock(IHyracksClientConnection.class);
-        HttpServletResponse mockResponse = mock(HttpServletResponse.class);
+        IServletResponse mockResponse = mock(IServletResponse.class);
         BuildProperties mockProperties = mock(BuildProperties.class);
+        FullHttpRequest mockHttpRequest = mock(FullHttpRequest.class);
 
+        // Put stuff in let map
+        servlet.ctx().put(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR, mockHcc);
+        servlet.ctx().put(ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR, mockCtx);
         // Sets up mock returns.
-        when(servlet.getServletContext()).thenReturn(mockContext);
-        when(mockResponse.getWriter()).thenReturn(outputWriter);
-        when(mockContext.getAttribute(HYRACKS_CONNECTION_ATTR)).thenReturn(mockHcc);
-        when(mockContext.getAttribute(ASTERIX_BUILD_PROP_ATTR)).thenReturn(mockCtx);
+        when(mockResponse.writer()).thenReturn(outputWriter);
+        when(mockRequest.getHttpRequest()).thenReturn(mockHttpRequest);
+        when(mockHttpRequest.method()).thenReturn(HttpMethod.GET);
         when(mockCtx.getBuildProperties()).thenReturn(mockProperties);
         when(mockProperties.getAllProps()).thenReturn(propMap);
 
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
         propMap.put("git.commit.user.name", "Obelix");
 
         // Calls VersionAPIServlet.formResponseObject.
-        servlet.doGet(mockRequest, mockResponse);
+        servlet.handle(mockRequest, mockResponse);
 
         // Constructs the actual response.
 
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/utils/ServletUtil.java b/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/utils/LetUtil.java
similarity index 93%
rename from asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/utils/ServletUtil.java
rename to asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/utils/LetUtil.java
index f0b124d..2fe9380 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/utils/ServletUtil.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/utils/LetUtil.java
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
  */
 package org.apache.asterix.common.utils;
 
-public class ServletUtil {
+public class LetUtil {
 
-    public enum Servlets {
+    public enum Lets {
         AQL("/aql"),
         AQL_QUERY("/query"),
         AQL_UPDATE("/update"),
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
         private final String path;
 
-        Servlets(String path) {
+        Lets(String path) {
             this.path = path;
         }
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 
     }
 
-    private ServletUtil() {
+    private LetUtil() {
         throw new AssertionError("No objects of this class should be created.");
     }
 }
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/test/aql/TestExecutor.java b/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/test/aql/TestExecutor.java
index 80e8d09..ff30df3 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/test/aql/TestExecutor.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/test/aql/TestExecutor.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.common.config.GlobalConfig;
-import org.apache.asterix.common.utils.ServletUtil.Servlets;
+import org.apache.asterix.common.utils.LetUtil.Lets;
 import org.apache.asterix.test.base.ComparisonException;
 import org.apache.asterix.test.server.ITestServer;
 import org.apache.asterix.test.server.TestServerProvider;
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@
     }
 
     private InputStream getHandleResult(String handle, OutputFormat fmt) throws Exception {
-        final String url = getEndpoint(Servlets.QUERY_RESULT);
+        final String url = getEndpoint(Lets.QUERY_RESULT);
 
         // Create a method instance.
         HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder.get(url).addParameter("handle", handle)
@@ -744,9 +744,9 @@
         switch (ctx.getType()) {
             case "ddl":
                 if (ctx.getFile().getName().endsWith("aql")) {
-                    executeDDL(statement, getEndpoint(Servlets.AQL_DDL));
+                    executeDDL(statement, getEndpoint(Lets.AQL_DDL));
                 } else {
-                    InputStream resultStream = executeQueryService(statement, getEndpoint(Servlets.QUERY_SERVICE));
+                    InputStream resultStream = executeQueryService(statement, getEndpoint(Lets.QUERY_SERVICE));
                     ResultExtractor.extract(resultStream);
                 }
                 break;
@@ -756,9 +756,9 @@
                     statement = statement.replaceAll("nc1://", "127.0.0.1://../../../../../../asterix-app/");
                 }
                 if (ctx.getFile().getName().endsWith("aql")) {
-                    executeUpdate(statement, getEndpoint(Servlets.AQL_UPDATE));
+                    executeUpdate(statement, getEndpoint(Lets.AQL_UPDATE));
                 } else {
-                    InputStream resultStream = executeQueryService(statement, getEndpoint(Servlets.QUERY_SERVICE));
+                    InputStream resultStream = executeQueryService(statement, getEndpoint(Lets.QUERY_SERVICE));
                     ResultExtractor.extract(resultStream);
                 }
                 break;
@@ -812,16 +812,16 @@
                 OutputFormat fmt = OutputFormat.forCompilationUnit(cUnit);
                 if (ctx.getFile().getName().endsWith("aql")) {
                     if (ctx.getType().equalsIgnoreCase("query")) {
-                        resultStream = executeQuery(statement, fmt, getEndpoint(Servlets.AQL_QUERY),
+                        resultStream = executeQuery(statement, fmt, getEndpoint(Lets.AQL_QUERY),
                                 cUnit.getParameter());
                     } else if (ctx.getType().equalsIgnoreCase("async")) {
-                        resultStream = executeAnyAQLAsync(statement, false, fmt, getEndpoint(Servlets.AQL));
+                        resultStream = executeAnyAQLAsync(statement, false, fmt, getEndpoint(Lets.AQL));
                     } else if (ctx.getType().equalsIgnoreCase("asyncdefer")) {
-                        resultStream = executeAnyAQLAsync(statement, true, fmt, getEndpoint(Servlets.AQL));
+                        resultStream = executeAnyAQLAsync(statement, true, fmt, getEndpoint(Lets.AQL));
                     }
                 } else {
                     final String reqType = ctx.getType();
-                    final String url = getEndpoint(Servlets.QUERY_SERVICE);
+                    final String url = getEndpoint(Lets.QUERY_SERVICE);
                     final List<CompilationUnit.Parameter> params = cUnit.getParameter();
                     if (reqType.equalsIgnoreCase("query")) {
                         resultStream = executeQueryService(statement, fmt, url, params, true);
@@ -854,13 +854,13 @@
                 break;
             case "txnqbc": // qbc represents query before crash
                 resultStream = executeQuery(statement, OutputFormat.forCompilationUnit(cUnit),
-                        getEndpoint(Servlets.AQL_QUERY), cUnit.getParameter());
+                        getEndpoint(Lets.AQL_QUERY), cUnit.getParameter());
                 qbcFile = getTestCaseQueryBeforeCrashFile(actualPath, testCaseCtx, cUnit);
                 writeOutputToFile(qbcFile, resultStream);
                 break;
             case "txnqar": // qar represents query after recovery
                 resultStream = executeQuery(statement, OutputFormat.forCompilationUnit(cUnit),
-                        getEndpoint(Servlets.AQL_QUERY), cUnit.getParameter());
+                        getEndpoint(Lets.AQL_QUERY), cUnit.getParameter());
                 File qarFile = new File(actualPath + File.separator
                         + testCaseCtx.getTestCase().getFilePath().replace(File.separator, "_") + "_" + cUnit.getName()
                         + "_qar.adm");
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@
                 break;
             case "txneu": // eu represents erroneous update
                 try {
-                    executeUpdate(statement, getEndpoint(Servlets.AQL_UPDATE));
+                    executeUpdate(statement, getEndpoint(Lets.AQL_UPDATE));
                 } catch (Exception e) {
                     // An exception is expected.
                     failed = true;
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@
                 break;
             case "errddl": // a ddlquery that expects error
                 try {
-                    executeDDL(statement, getEndpoint(Servlets.AQL_DDL));
+                    executeDDL(statement, getEndpoint(Lets.AQL_DDL));
                 } catch (Exception e) {
                     // expected error happens
                     failed = true;
@@ -1136,11 +1136,11 @@
                         + cUnit.getName() + "_qbc.adm");
     }
 
-    protected String getPath(Servlets servlet) {
+    protected String getPath(Lets servlet) {
         return servlet.getPath();
     }
 
-    protected String getEndpoint(Servlets servlet) {
+    protected String getEndpoint(Lets servlet) {
         return "http://" + host + ":" + port + getPath(servlet).replaceAll("/\\*$", "");
     }
 
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@
         try {
             ArrayList<String> toBeDropped = new ArrayList<>();
             InputStream resultStream = executeQueryService("select dv.DataverseName from Metadata.`Dataverse` as dv;",
-                    getEndpoint(Servlets.QUERY_SERVICE));
+                    getEndpoint(Lets.QUERY_SERVICE));
             String out = IOUtils.toString(resultStream);
             ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
             om.setConfig(om.getDeserializationConfig().with(DeserializationFeature.ACCEPT_EMPTY_STRING_AS_NULL_OBJECT));
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@
                     dropStatement.append(dv);
                     dropStatement.append(";\n");
                 }
-                resultStream = executeQueryService(dropStatement.toString(), getEndpoint(Servlets.QUERY_SERVICE));
+                resultStream = executeQueryService(dropStatement.toString(), getEndpoint(Lets.QUERY_SERVICE));
                 ResultExtractor.extract(resultStream);
             }
         } catch (Throwable th) {
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-server/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/server/test/SampleLocalClusterIT.java b/asterixdb/asterix-server/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/server/test/SampleLocalClusterIT.java
index 83d421f..0991d4f 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-server/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/server/test/SampleLocalClusterIT.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-server/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/server/test/SampleLocalClusterIT.java
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.Collections;
 
-import org.apache.asterix.common.utils.ServletUtil.Servlets;
+import org.apache.asterix.common.utils.LetUtil.Lets;
 import org.apache.asterix.test.aql.TestExecutor;
 import org.apache.asterix.test.base.TestMethodTracer;
 import org.apache.asterix.test.common.TestHelper;
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
     public void test1_sanityQuery() throws Exception {
         TestExecutor testExecutor = new TestExecutor();
         InputStream resultStream = testExecutor.executeQuery("1+1", OutputFormat.ADM,
-                "http://127.0.0.1:19002" + Servlets.AQL_QUERY.getPath(), Collections.emptyList());
+                "http://127.0.0.1:19002" + Lets.AQL_QUERY.getPath(), Collections.emptyList());
         StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
         IOUtils.copy(resultStream, sw);
         Assert.assertEquals("2", sw.toString().trim());
diff --git a/asterixdb/pom.xml b/asterixdb/pom.xml
index ea80127..3133231 100644
--- a/asterixdb/pom.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/pom.xml
@@ -825,6 +825,11 @@
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+        <artifactId>hyracks-http</artifactId>
+        <version>${hyracks.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
         <artifactId>hyracks-util</artifactId>
         <version>${hyracks.version}</version>
       </dependency>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8dc57a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ ! "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ ! with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ !
+ !   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ !
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ ! software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ ! "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ ! KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ ! specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ ! under the License.
+ !-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+    <artifactId>hyracks</artifactId>
+    <version>0.3.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>hyracks-http</artifactId>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+      <artifactId>netty-all</artifactId>
+      <version>4.1.6.Final</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/AbstractServlet.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/AbstractServlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22bbc50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/AbstractServlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+
+public abstract class AbstractServlet implements IServlet {
+    protected final String[] paths;
+    protected final ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx;
+    private final int[] trims;
+
+    public AbstractServlet(ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx, String[] paths) {
+        this.paths = paths;
+        this.ctx = ctx;
+        trims = new int[paths.length];
+        for (int i = 0; i < paths.length; i++) {
+            String path = paths[i];
+            if (path.endsWith("/*")) {
+                trims[i] = path.indexOf("/*");
+            } else if (path.endsWith("/")) {
+                trims[i] = path.length() - 1;
+            } else {
+                trims[i] = path.length();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String[] getPaths() {
+        return paths;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx() {
+        return ctx;
+    }
+
+    public String path(IServletRequest request) {
+        int trim = -1;
+        if (paths.length > 1) {
+            for (int i = 0; i < paths.length; i++) {
+                String path = paths[i].indexOf('*') >= 0 ? paths[i].substring(0, paths[i].indexOf('*')) : paths[0];
+                if (request.getHttpRequest().uri().indexOf(path) == 0) {
+                    trim = trims[i];
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            trim = trims[0];
+        }
+        return request.getHttpRequest().uri().substring(trim);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/ChunkedNettyOutputStream.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/ChunkedNettyOutputStream.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..984122b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/ChunkedNettyOutputStream.java
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.DefaultHttpContent;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+public class ChunkedNettyOutputStream extends OutputStream {
+
+    private final ChannelHandlerContext ctx;
+    private final ChunkedResponse response;
+    private ByteBuf buffer;
+
+    public ChunkedNettyOutputStream(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, int chunkSize,
+            ChunkedResponse response) {
+        this.response = response;
+        this.ctx = ctx;
+        buffer = ctx.alloc().buffer(chunkSize);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) {
+        if ((off < 0) || (off > b.length) || (len < 0) ||
+                ((off + len) > b.length)) {
+            throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException();
+        } else if (len == 0) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (len > buffer.capacity()) {
+            flush();
+            flush(b, off, len);
+        } else {
+            int space = buffer.writableBytes();
+            if (space >= len) {
+                buffer.writeBytes(b, off, len);
+            } else {
+                buffer.writeBytes(b, off, space);
+                flush();
+                buffer.writeBytes(b, off + space, len - space);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void write(int b) {
+        if (buffer.writableBytes() > 0) {
+            buffer.writeByte(b);
+        } else {
+            flush();
+            buffer.writeByte(b);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void close() throws IOException {
+        flush();
+        buffer.release();
+        super.close();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public synchronized void flush() {
+        if (buffer.readableBytes() > 0) {
+            int size = buffer.capacity();
+            if (response.status() == HttpResponseStatus.OK) {
+                response.flush();
+                DefaultHttpContent content = new DefaultHttpContent(buffer);
+                ctx.write(content);
+            } else {
+                response.error(buffer);
+            }
+            buffer = ctx.alloc().buffer(size);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private synchronized void flush(byte[] buf, int offset, int len) {
+        ByteBuf aBuffer = ctx.alloc().buffer(len);
+        aBuffer.writeBytes(buf, offset, len);
+        if (response.status() == HttpResponseStatus.OK) {
+            response.flush();
+            ctx.write(new DefaultHttpContent(aBuffer));
+        } else {
+            response.error(aBuffer);
+        }
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/ChunkedResponse.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/ChunkedResponse.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19c2664
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/ChunkedResponse.java
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus.OK;
+import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+
+import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.DefaultHttpResponse;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpRequest;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaderNames;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaderValues;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponse;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpUtil;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.LastHttpContent;
+
+public class ChunkedResponse implements IServletResponse {
+    private final ChannelHandlerContext ctx;
+    private final ChunkedNettyOutputStream outputStream;
+    private final PrintWriter writer;
+    private HttpResponse response;
+    private boolean headerSent;
+    private ByteBuf error;
+    private ChannelFuture future;
+
+    public ChunkedResponse(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, FullHttpRequest request) {
+        this.ctx = ctx;
+        outputStream = new ChunkedNettyOutputStream(ctx, 4096, this);
+        writer = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
+        response = new DefaultHttpResponse(HTTP_1_1, OK);
+        response.headers().set(HttpHeaderNames.TRANSFER_ENCODING, HttpHeaderValues.CHUNKED);
+        if (HttpUtil.isKeepAlive(request)) {
+            response.headers().set(HttpHeaderNames.CONNECTION, HttpHeaderValues.KEEP_ALIVE);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public IServletResponse setHeader(CharSequence name, Object value) throws IOException {
+        if (headerSent) {
+            throw new IOException("Can't add more headers since the initial response was sent");
+        }
+        response.headers().set(name, value);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ChannelFuture future() {
+        return future;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public PrintWriter writer() {
+        return writer;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+        if (error == null) {
+            writer.close();
+            future = ctx.writeAndFlush(LastHttpContent.EMPTY_LAST_CONTENT);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public HttpResponseStatus status() {
+        return response.status();
+    }
+
+    public void flush() {
+        if (!headerSent && response.status() == HttpResponseStatus.OK) {
+            ctx.writeAndFlush(response);
+            headerSent = true;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void error(ByteBuf error) {
+        this.error = error;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public OutputStream outputStream() {
+        return outputStream;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setStatus(HttpResponseStatus status) {
+        // update the response
+        // close the stream
+        // write the response
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/FullResponse.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/FullResponse.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..245f28a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/FullResponse.java
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+
+import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelFutureListener;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.DefaultFullHttpResponse;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpRequest;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpResponse;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaderNames;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaderValues;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpUtil;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion;
+
+public class FullResponse implements IServletResponse {
+    private final ChannelHandlerContext ctx;
+    private final ByteArrayOutputStream baos;
+    private final PrintWriter writer;
+    private final FullHttpResponse response;
+    private final boolean keepAlive;
+    private ChannelFuture future;
+
+    public FullResponse(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, FullHttpRequest request) {
+        this.ctx = ctx;
+        baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        writer = new PrintWriter(baos);
+        response = new DefaultFullHttpResponse(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+        keepAlive = HttpUtil.isKeepAlive(request);
+        if (keepAlive) {
+            response.headers().set(HttpHeaderNames.CONNECTION, HttpHeaderValues.KEEP_ALIVE);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+        writer.close();
+        FullHttpResponse fullResponse = response.replace(Unpooled.copiedBuffer(baos.toByteArray()));
+        if (keepAlive && response.status() == HttpResponseStatus.OK) {
+            fullResponse.headers().setInt(HttpHeaderNames.CONTENT_LENGTH, fullResponse.content().readableBytes());
+        }
+        future = ctx.writeAndFlush(fullResponse);
+        if (response.status() != HttpResponseStatus.OK) {
+            future.addListener(ChannelFutureListener.CLOSE);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public IServletResponse setHeader(CharSequence name, Object value) throws IOException {
+        response.headers().set(name, value);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public PrintWriter writer() {
+        return writer;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ChannelFuture future() throws IOException {
+        return future;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public OutputStream outputStream() {
+        return baos;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setStatus(HttpResponseStatus status) {
+        response.setStatus(status);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/GetRequest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/GetRequest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b80a78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/GetRequest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpRequest;
+
+public class GetRequest implements IServletRequest {
+    private final FullHttpRequest request;
+    private final Map<String, List<String>> parameters;
+
+    public GetRequest(FullHttpRequest request, Map<String, List<String>> parameters) {
+        this.request = request;
+        this.parameters = parameters;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public FullHttpRequest getHttpRequest() {
+        return request;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getParameter(CharSequence name) {
+        return IServletRequest.getParameter(parameters, name);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getHeader(CharSequence name) {
+        return request.headers().get(name);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServer.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7f55bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import io.netty.bootstrap.ServerBootstrap;
+import io.netty.channel.Channel;
+import io.netty.channel.EventLoopGroup;
+import io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioServerSocketChannel;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpRequest;
+import io.netty.handler.logging.LogLevel;
+import io.netty.handler.logging.LoggingHandler;
+
+public class HttpServer {
+    // Constants
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(HttpServer.class.getName());
+    private static final int FAILED = -1;
+    private static final int STOPPED = 0;
+    private static final int STARTING = 1;
+    private static final int STARTED = 2;
+    private static final int STOPPING = 3;
+    // Final members
+    private final Object lock = new Object();
+    private final ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx;
+    private final List<IServlet> lets;
+    private final EventLoopGroup bossGroup;
+    private final EventLoopGroup workerGroup;
+    private final int port;
+    // Mutable members
+    private volatile int state = STOPPED;
+    private Channel channel;
+    private Throwable cause;
+
+    public HttpServer(EventLoopGroup bossGroup, EventLoopGroup workerGroup,
+            int port) {
+        this.bossGroup = bossGroup;
+        this.workerGroup = workerGroup;
+        this.port = port;
+        ctx = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
+        lets = new ArrayList<>();
+    }
+
+    public final void start() throws Exception { // NOSONAR
+        synchronized (lock) {
+            try {
+                if (state == STARTED || state == STARTING) {
+                    return;
+                }
+                setStarting();
+                doStart();
+                setStarted();
+            } catch (Throwable e) { // NOSONAR
+                LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Failure starting an Http Server", e);
+                setFailed(e);
+                throw e;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public final void stop() throws Exception { // NOSONAR
+        synchronized (lock) {
+            try {
+                if (state == STOPPING || state == STOPPED) {
+                    return;
+                }
+                setStopping();
+                doStop();
+                setStopped();
+            } catch (Throwable e) { // NOSONAR
+                LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Failure stopping an Http Server", e);
+                setFailed(e);
+                throw e;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return String representation of the State for this server
+     */
+    public String getState() {
+        switch (state) {
+            case FAILED:
+                return "FAILED";
+            case STARTING:
+                return "STARTING";
+            case STARTED:
+                return "STARTED";
+            case STOPPING:
+                return "STOPPING";
+            case STOPPED:
+                return "STOPPED";
+            default:
+                return "UNKNOWN";
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void setStarting() {
+        state = STARTING;
+    }
+
+    private void setStarted() {
+        state = STARTED;
+    }
+
+    private void setStopping() {
+        state = STOPPING;
+    }
+
+    private void setStopped() {
+        state = STOPPED;
+    }
+
+    private void setFailed(Throwable th) {
+        state = FAILED;
+        cause = th;
+    }
+
+    public Throwable getCause() {
+        return cause;
+    }
+
+    public void setAttribute(String name, Object value) {
+        ctx.put(name, value);
+    }
+
+    public Object getAttribute(String name) {
+        return ctx.get(name);
+    }
+
+    public ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx() {
+        return ctx;
+    }
+
+    public void addLet(IServlet let) {
+        lets.add(let);
+    }
+
+
+    protected void doStart() throws InterruptedException {
+        /*
+         * This is a hacky way to ensure that ILets with more specific paths are checked first.
+         * For example:
+         * "/path/to/resource/"
+         * is checked before
+         * "/path/to/"
+         * which in turn is checked before
+         * "/path/"
+         * Note that it doesn't work for the case where multiple paths map to a single ILet
+         */
+        Collections.sort(lets, (l1, l2) -> l2.getPaths()[0].length() - l1.getPaths()[0].length());
+        ServerBootstrap b = new ServerBootstrap();
+        b.group(bossGroup, workerGroup)
+                .channel(NioServerSocketChannel.class)
+                .handler(new LoggingHandler(LogLevel.INFO))
+                .childHandler(new HttpServerInitializer(this));
+        channel = b.bind(port).sync().channel();
+    }
+
+
+    protected void doStop() throws InterruptedException {
+        channel.close();
+        channel.closeFuture().sync();
+    }
+
+    public IServlet getServlet(FullHttpRequest request) {
+        String uri = request.uri();
+        int i = uri.indexOf('?');
+        if (i >= 0) {
+            uri = uri.substring(0, i);
+        }
+        for (IServlet let : lets) {
+            for (String path : let.getPaths()) {
+                if (match(path, uri)) {
+                    return let;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    private static boolean match(String pathSpec, String path) {
+        char c = pathSpec.charAt(0);
+        if (c == '/') {
+            if (pathSpec.length() == 1 || pathSpec.equals(path)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            if (isPathWildcardMatch(pathSpec, path)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        } else if (c == '*') {
+            return path.regionMatches(path.length() - pathSpec.length() + 1,
+                    pathSpec, 1, pathSpec.length() - 1);
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+    private static boolean isPathWildcardMatch(String pathSpec, String path) {
+        int cpl = pathSpec.length() - 2;
+        return (pathSpec.endsWith("/*") && path.regionMatches(0, pathSpec, 0, cpl))
+                && (path.length() == cpl || '/' == path.charAt(cpl));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerHandler.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c8ed937
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelFutureListener;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
+import io.netty.channel.SimpleChannelInboundHandler;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.DefaultHttpResponse;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpRequest;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpUtil;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.QueryStringDecoder;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.multipart.Attribute;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.multipart.HttpPostRequestDecoder;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.multipart.InterfaceHttpData;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.multipart.InterfaceHttpData.HttpDataType;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.multipart.MixedAttribute;
+
+public class HttpServerHandler extends SimpleChannelInboundHandler<Object> {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(HttpServerHandler.class.getName());
+    protected final HttpServer server;
+
+    public HttpServerHandler(HttpServer server) {
+        this.server = server;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void channelReadComplete(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) {
+        ctx.flush();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void channelRead0(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object msg) {
+        try {
+            FullHttpRequest http = (FullHttpRequest) msg;
+            IServlet servlet = server.getServlet(http);
+            if (servlet == null) {
+                DefaultHttpResponse response = new DefaultHttpResponse(http.protocolVersion(),
+                        HttpResponseStatus.NOT_FOUND);
+                ctx.write(response).addListener(ChannelFutureListener.CLOSE);
+            } else {
+                if (http.method() != HttpMethod.GET && http.method() != HttpMethod.POST) {
+                    DefaultHttpResponse response = new DefaultHttpResponse(http.protocolVersion(),
+                            HttpResponseStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
+                    ctx.write(response).addListener(ChannelFutureListener.CLOSE);
+                    return;
+                }
+                IServletRequest request = http.method() == HttpMethod.GET ? get(http) : post(http);
+                IServletResponse response = new FullResponse(ctx, http);
+                try {
+                    servlet.handle(request, response);
+                } catch (Throwable th) { // NOSONAR
+                    LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failure during handling of an IServLetRequest", th);
+                    response.setStatus(HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+                } finally {
+                    response.close();
+                }
+                ChannelFuture lastContentFuture = response.future();
+                if (!HttpUtil.isKeepAlive(http)) {
+                    lastContentFuture.addListener(ChannelFutureListener.CLOSE);
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Failure handling HTTP Request", e);
+            ctx.close();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static IServletRequest post(FullHttpRequest request) throws IOException {
+        List<String> names = new ArrayList<>();
+        List<String> values = new ArrayList<>();
+        HttpPostRequestDecoder decoder = null;
+        try {
+            decoder = new HttpPostRequestDecoder(request);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            //ignore. this means that the body of the POST request does not have key value pairs
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Failed to decode a post message. Fix the API not to have queries as POST body",
+                    e);
+        }
+        if (decoder != null) {
+            try {
+                List<InterfaceHttpData> bodyHttpDatas = decoder.getBodyHttpDatas();
+                for (InterfaceHttpData data : bodyHttpDatas) {
+                    if (data.getHttpDataType().equals(HttpDataType.Attribute)) {
+                        Attribute attr = (MixedAttribute) data;
+                        names.add(data.getName());
+                        values.add(attr.getValue());
+                    }
+                }
+            } finally {
+                decoder.destroy();
+            }
+        }
+        return new PostRequest(request, new QueryStringDecoder(request.uri()).parameters(), names, values);
+    }
+
+    public static IServletRequest get(FullHttpRequest request) throws IOException {
+        return new GetRequest(request, new QueryStringDecoder(request.uri()).parameters());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void exceptionCaught(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Throwable cause) {
+        LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Failure handling HTTP Request", cause);
+        ctx.close();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerInitializer.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerInitializer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b32ee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerInitializer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelInitializer;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
+import io.netty.channel.socket.SocketChannel;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpObjectAggregator;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestDecoder;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseEncoder;
+
+public class HttpServerInitializer extends ChannelInitializer<SocketChannel> {
+
+    private static final int MAX_CHUNK_SIZE = 262144;
+    private static final int MAX_HEADER_SIZE = 262144;
+    private static final int MAX_INITIAL_LINE_LENGTH = 131072;
+    private HttpServer server;
+
+    public HttpServerInitializer(HttpServer server) {
+        this.server = server;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void initChannel(SocketChannel ch) {
+        ChannelPipeline p = ch.pipeline();
+        p.addLast(new HttpRequestDecoder(MAX_INITIAL_LINE_LENGTH, MAX_HEADER_SIZE, MAX_CHUNK_SIZE));
+        p.addLast(new HttpResponseEncoder());
+        p.addLast(new HttpObjectAggregator(Integer.MAX_VALUE));
+        p.addLast(new HttpServerHandler(server));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/IServlet.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/IServlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5691fd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/IServlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+
+/**
+ * Represents a component that handles IServLet requests
+ */
+public interface IServlet {
+
+    public class Encoding {
+        public static final String UTF8 = "utf-8";
+
+        private Encoding() {
+        }
+    }
+
+    public class ContentType {
+        public static final String APPLICATION_ADM = "application/x-adm";
+        public static final String APPLICATION_JSON = "application/json";
+        public static final String CSV = "text/csv";
+        public static final String IMG_PNG = "image/png";
+        public static final String TEXT_HTML = "text/html";
+        public static final String TEXT_PLAIN = "text/plain";
+
+        private ContentType() {
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Get the mime string representation from the extension
+         * @param extension
+         * @return
+         */
+        public static String mime(String extension) {
+            switch (extension) {
+                case ".png":
+                    return "image/png";
+                case ".eot":
+                    return "application/vnd.ms-fontobject";
+                case ".svg":
+                    return "image/svg+xml\t";
+                case ".ttf":
+                    return "application/x-font-ttf";
+                case ".woff":
+                case ".woff2":
+                    return "application/x-font-woff";
+                case ".html":
+                    return "text/html";
+                case ".css":
+                    return "text/css";
+                case ".js":
+                    return "application/javascript";
+                default:
+                    return null;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return an array of paths associated with this IServLet
+     */
+    String[] getPaths();
+
+    /**
+     * @return the context associated with this IServlet
+     */
+    ConcurrentMap<String, Object> ctx();
+
+    /**
+     * handle the IServLetRequest writing the response in the passed IServLetResponse
+     * @param request
+     * @param response
+     */
+    void handle(IServletRequest request, IServletResponse response);
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/IServletRequest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/IServletRequest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8aebd07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/IServletRequest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpRequest;
+
+/**
+ * An Http Request instance
+ */
+public interface IServletRequest {
+    /**
+     * @return the full http request
+     */
+    FullHttpRequest getHttpRequest();
+
+    /**
+     * Get a request parameter
+     * @param name
+     * @return the parameter or null if not found
+     */
+    String getParameter(CharSequence name);
+
+    /**
+     * Get a request header
+     * @param name
+     * @return the header or null if not found
+     */
+    String getHeader(CharSequence name);
+
+    static String getParameter(Map<String, List<String>> parameters, CharSequence name) {
+        List<String> parameter = parameters.get(name);
+        if (parameter == null) {
+            return null;
+        } else if (parameter.size() == 1) {
+            return parameter.get(0);
+        } else {
+            StringBuilder aString = new StringBuilder(parameter.get(0));
+            for (int i = 1; i < parameter.size(); i++) {
+                aString.append(",").append(parameter.get(i));
+            }
+            return aString.toString();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/IServletResponse.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/IServletResponse.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..342e643
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/IServletResponse.java
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.io.Closeable;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaderNames;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus;
+
+/**
+ * A response to an instance of IServLetRequest
+ */
+public interface IServletResponse extends Closeable {
+
+    /**
+     * Set a response header
+     * @param name
+     * @param value
+     * @return
+     * @throws Exception
+     */
+    IServletResponse setHeader(CharSequence name, Object value) throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * Get the output writer for the response
+     * @return
+     * @throws Exception
+     */
+    PrintWriter writer();
+
+    /**
+     * Send the last http response if any and return the future
+     * @return
+     * @throws Exception
+     */
+    ChannelFuture future() throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * Set the status of the http response
+     * @param status
+     */
+    void setStatus(HttpResponseStatus status);
+
+    /**
+     * Get the output stream for the response
+     * @return
+     */
+    OutputStream outputStream();
+
+    public static void setContentType(IServletResponse response, String type, String charset) throws IOException {
+        response.setHeader(HttpHeaderNames.CONTENT_TYPE, type + "; charset=" + charset);
+    }
+
+    public static void setContentType(IServletResponse response, String type) throws IOException {
+        response.setHeader(HttpHeaderNames.CONTENT_TYPE, type);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/PostRequest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/PostRequest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99f338c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/PostRequest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hyracks.http.server;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.FullHttpRequest;
+
+public class PostRequest implements IServletRequest {
+    private final FullHttpRequest request;
+    private final List<String> names;
+    private final List<String> values;
+    private final Map<String, List<String>> parameters;
+
+    public PostRequest(FullHttpRequest request, Map<String, List<String>> parameters, List<String> names,
+            List<String> values) {
+        this.request = request;
+        this.parameters = parameters;
+        this.names = names;
+        this.values = values;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public FullHttpRequest getHttpRequest() {
+        return request;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getParameter(CharSequence name) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < names.size(); i++) {
+            if (name.equals(names.get(i))) {
+                return values.get(i);
+            }
+        }
+        return IServletRequest.getParameter(parameters, name);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getHeader(CharSequence name) {
+        return request.headers().get(name);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/pom.xml
index e2d5a95..fc7d8b5 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/pom.xml
@@ -130,5 +130,6 @@
     <module>hyracks-maven-plugins</module>
     <module>hyracks-hdfs</module>
     <module>hyracks-dist</module>
+    <module>hyracks-http</module>
   </modules>
 </project>