diff --git a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/pom.xml b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/pom.xml
index fdc2a258bdc..cdef006bc8a 100644
--- a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/pom.xml
+++ b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/pom.xml
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@
       <artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
-        <artifactId>jetty-servlet</artifactId>
+      <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty.${jetty.ee.version}</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jetty-${jetty.ee.version}-servlet</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
diff --git a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/HttpServer.java b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/HttpServer.java
index 7fe71e16ba8..37a6950898a 100644
--- a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/HttpServer.java
+++ b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/HttpServer.java
@@ -31,9 +31,8 @@
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConfiguration;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnectionFactory;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.ServerConnector;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.servlet.ServletContextHandler;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.servlet.ServletHolder;
 
 /** An HTTP-based RPC {@link Server}. */
 public class HttpServer implements Server {
@@ -71,10 +70,8 @@ public HttpServer(ResponderServlet servlet, String bindAddress, int port) throws
     connector.setPort(port);
     server.addConnector(connector);
 
-    ServletHandler handler = new ServletHandler();
-    handler.addServletWithMapping(new ServletHolder(servlet), "/*");
     ServletContextHandler sch = new ServletContextHandler();
-    sch.setServletHandler(handler);
+    sch.getServletHandler().addServletWithMapping(new ServletHolder(servlet), "/*");
     server.setHandler(sch);
   }
 
@@ -103,9 +100,9 @@ public HttpServer(ResponderServlet servlet, ConnectionFactory connectionFactory,
     connector.setPort(port);
 
     server.addConnector(connector);
-    ServletHandler handler = new ServletHandler();
-    server.setHandler(handler);
-    handler.addServletWithMapping(new ServletHolder(servlet), "/*");
+    ServletContextHandler sch = new ServletContextHandler();
+    server.setHandler(sch);
+    sch.getServletHandler().addServletWithMapping(new ServletHolder(servlet), "/*");
   }
 
   /**
@@ -119,9 +116,9 @@ public HttpServer(ResponderServlet servlet, Connector connector) throws IOExcept
     if (server.getConnectors().length == 0 || Arrays.asList(server.getConnectors()).contains(connector)) {
       server.addConnector(connector);
     }
-    ServletHandler handler = new ServletHandler();
-    server.setHandler(handler);
-    handler.addServletWithMapping(new ServletHolder(servlet), "/*");
+    ServletContextHandler sch = new ServletContextHandler();
+    server.setHandler(sch);
+    sch.getServletHandler().addServletWithMapping(new ServletHolder(servlet), "/*");
   }
 
   /**
@@ -154,7 +151,7 @@ public void close() {
 
   /**
    * Start the server.
-   * 
+   *
    * @throws AvroRuntimeException if the underlying Jetty server throws any
    *                              exception while starting.
    */
diff --git a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/StatsServer.java b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/StatsServer.java
index ea83dd1ac69..9b3767cdef7 100644
--- a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/StatsServer.java
+++ b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/StatsServer.java
@@ -21,13 +21,14 @@
 import org.apache.avro.ipc.stats.StatsPlugin;
 import org.apache.avro.ipc.stats.StatsServlet;
 
+import org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.servlet.ServletContextHandler;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.servlet.ServletHolder;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Handler;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerList;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ResourceHandler;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.ResourceFactory;
 
 /* This is a server that displays live information from a StatsPlugin.
  *
@@ -54,21 +55,24 @@ public StatsServer(StatsPlugin plugin, int port) throws Exception {
     ServletHolder servletHolder = new ServletHolder(new StatsServlet(plugin));
     servletContext.addServlet(servletHolder, "/");
 
-    HandlerList handlers = new HandlerList(servletContext);
+    Handler.Sequence handlers = new Handler.Sequence();
 
-    Resource classPathResource = Resource.newClassPathResource("/org/apache/avro/ipc/stats/static");
-    if (classPathResource.exists() && classPathResource.isDirectory()) {
+    ResourceFactory resourceFactory = ResourceFactory.of(httpServer);
+    Resource classPathResource = resourceFactory.newResource("/org/apache/avro/ipc/stats/static");
+    if (classPathResource != null && classPathResource.exists() && classPathResource.isDirectory()) {
       ResourceHandler resourceHandler = new ResourceHandler();
       resourceHandler.setBaseResource(classPathResource);
-      resourceHandler.setDirectoriesListed(false); // Optional: prevent directory listing
+      resourceHandler.setDirAllowed(false); // Optional: prevent directory listing
 
       ContextHandler staticContext = new ContextHandler();
       staticContext.setContextPath("/static");
       staticContext.setHandler(resourceHandler);
 
-      handlers.prependHandler(staticContext);
+      handlers.addHandler(staticContext);
     }
 
+    handlers.addHandler(servletContext);
+
     httpServer.setHandler(handlers);
 
     httpServer.start();
diff --git a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/TestProtocolHttps.java b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/TestProtocolHttps.java
index 57aae423c26..78c8a68c3e8 100644
--- a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/TestProtocolHttps.java
+++ b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/TestProtocolHttps.java
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public Server createServer(Responder testResponder) throws Exception {
     System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "src/test/truststore");
     System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "avrotest");
     SslConnectionFactory connectionFactory = new SslConnectionFactory("HTTP/1.1");
-    SslContextFactory sslContextFactory = connectionFactory.getSslContextFactory();
+    SslContextFactory.Server sslContextFactory = connectionFactory.getSslContextFactory();
 
     sslContextFactory.setKeyStorePath(System.getProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStore"));
     sslContextFactory.setKeyManagerPassword(System.getProperty("javax.net.ssl.password"));
diff --git a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/TestStatsPluginAndServlet.java b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/TestStatsPluginAndServlet.java
index 33563f96dce..e9f7a90f5ee 100644
--- a/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/TestStatsPluginAndServlet.java
+++ b/lang/java/ipc-jetty/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/jetty/TestStatsPluginAndServlet.java
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Random;
 
-import javax.servlet.UnavailableException;
+import jakarta.servlet.UnavailableException;
 
 import org.apache.avro.AvroRemoteException;
 import org.apache.avro.Protocol;
@@ -164,11 +164,11 @@ public Object respond(Message message, Object request) throws AvroRemoteExceptio
   /**
    * Demo program for using RPC stats. This automatically generates client RPC
    * requests. Alternatively a can be used (as below) to trigger RPCs.
-   * 
+   *
    * <pre>
    * java -jar build/avro-tools-*.jar rpcsend '{"protocol":"sleepy","namespace":null,"types":[],"messages":{"sleep":{"request":[{"name":"millis","type":"long"}],"response":"null"}}}' sleep localhost 7002 '{"millis": 20000}'
    * </pre>
-   * 
+   *
    * @param args
    * @throws Exception
    */
diff --git a/lang/java/ipc/pom.xml b/lang/java/ipc/pom.xml
index 6f5fb359df9..1937e327855 100644
--- a/lang/java/ipc/pom.xml
+++ b/lang/java/ipc/pom.xml
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@
       <artifactId>velocity-engine-core</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-        <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
+        <groupId>jakarta.servlet</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jakarta.servlet-api</artifactId>
         <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- javax.annotation-api dependency must be explicit for forward compatibility (Java > 9) -->
diff --git a/lang/java/ipc/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/ResponderServlet.java b/lang/java/ipc/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/ResponderServlet.java
index a2fe5fa486c..c36ee9bae47 100644
--- a/lang/java/ipc/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/ResponderServlet.java
+++ b/lang/java/ipc/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/ResponderServlet.java
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import jakarta.servlet.ServletException;
+import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
+import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 
 import org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException;
 
diff --git a/lang/java/ipc/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/stats/StatsServlet.java b/lang/java/ipc/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/stats/StatsServlet.java
index 38c0bb2fe03..e40a3c03ad9 100644
--- a/lang/java/ipc/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/stats/StatsServlet.java
+++ b/lang/java/ipc/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/ipc/stats/StatsServlet.java
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
 
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.UnavailableException;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import jakarta.servlet.ServletException;
+import jakarta.servlet.UnavailableException;
+import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
+import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 import org.apache.velocity.Template;
 import org.apache.velocity.VelocityContext;
 import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
diff --git a/lang/java/pom.xml b/lang/java/pom.xml
index 08783e24bc7..a657aa5963a 100644
--- a/lang/java/pom.xml
+++ b/lang/java/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@
     <hadoop.version>3.4.3</hadoop.version>
     <hamcrest.version>3.0</hamcrest.version>
     <jackson-bom.version>2.22.0</jackson-bom.version>
-    <jetty.version>9.4.58.v20250814</jetty.version>
+    <jetty.ee.version>ee9</jetty.ee.version>
+    <jetty.version>12.1.4</jetty.version>
     <jopt-simple.version>5.0.4</jopt-simple.version>
     <junit5.version>5.14.4</junit5.version>
     <maven-core.version>3.9.6</maven-core.version>
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@
     <netty.version>4.2.15.Final</netty.version>
     <protobuf.version>4.35.1</protobuf.version>
     <reload4j.version>1.2.26</reload4j.version>
-    <servlet-api.version>4.0.1</servlet-api.version>
+    <servlet-api.version>6.0.0</servlet-api.version>
     <slf4j.version>2.0.18</slf4j.version>
     <snappy.version>1.1.10.8</snappy.version>
     <thrift.version>0.20.0</thrift.version>
@@ -534,8 +535,8 @@
         <version>${jetty.version}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
-        <artifactId>jetty-servlet</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty.${jetty.ee.version}</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jetty-${jetty.ee.version}-servlet</artifactId>
         <version>${jetty.version}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
@@ -544,8 +545,8 @@
         <version>${jetty.version}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
-        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
-        <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
+        <groupId>jakarta.servlet</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jakarta.servlet-api</artifactId>
         <version>${servlet-api.version}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 34f0171d7f2..4944ef2cd34 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
             <configuration>
               <rules>
                 <enforceBytecodeVersion>
-                  <maxJdkVersion>11</maxJdkVersion>
+                  <maxJdkVersion>17</maxJdkVersion>
                   <ignoredScopes>
                     <ignoredScope>test</ignoredScope>
                     <ignoredScope>provided</ignoredScope>