diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9d28c793e..45cce38d3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 *.c
 *.so
 
+# Jython
+*$py.class
+
 # Packages
 *.egg
 *.egg-info
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 1707172e7..28fce2415 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 language: python
 sudo: false
-install: pip install tox coveralls --use-mirrors
+install: travis_scripts/install.sh
 cache:
     directories:
         - $HOME/.cache/pip
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ env:
   - TOX_ENV=pylint
   - TOX_ENV=py27_smoke
   - TOX_ENV=py27_smoke_cython
+  - JYTHON=true
 
-script: tox -e $TOX_ENV
+script: travis_scripts/run_tests.sh
 after_success: coveralls
 notifications:
   irc:
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 2aa67b3ae..74d52acc5 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Kurt Griffiths (kgriffs) is the creator and current maintainer of the Falcon framework. Pull requests are always welcome.
 
-Before submitting a pull request, please ensure you have added or updated tests as appropriate, and that all existing tests still pass with your changes on both Python 2 and Python 3. Please also ensure that your coding style follows PEP 8 and doesn't cause pyflakes to complain. 
+Before submitting a pull request, please ensure you have added or updated tests as appropriate, and that all existing tests still pass with your changes on both Python 2 and Python 3. Please also ensure that your coding style follows PEP 8 and doesn't cause pyflakes to complain.
 
 You can check all this by running the following from within the falcon project directory (requires Python 2.7 and Python 3.3 to be installed on your system):
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Must be one of the following:
 * **perf**: A code change that improves performance
 * **test**: Adding missing tests
 * **chore**: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation
- 
+
 ##### Scope
 The scope could be anything specifying place of the commit change. For example: `$location`, `$browser`, `$compile`, `$rootScope`, `ngHref`, `ngClick`, `ngView`, etc...
 
@@ -80,6 +80,16 @@ Just as in the **subject**, use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "cha
 ##### Footer
 The footer should contain any information about **Breaking Changes** and is also the place to reference GitHub issues that this commit **Closes**.
 
+### Running tests against Jython
+In addition to the tests run with tox against cpython, cython, and pypy versions, Travis runs tests against jython 2.7 outside of tox. If you need to run these tests locally, do the following:
+* Install JDK 7 or better
+* run `travis_scripts/install_jython2.7.sh` -- this will install jython at `~/jython`
+* Install testing requirements `~/jython/bin/pip install -r tools/test-requires`
+    * May need to set `export JYTHON_HOME=~/jython` first
+* Run tests `~/jython/bin/nosetests`
+
+Note: coverage does not support Jython, so the coverage tests will fail.
+
 [ajs]: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#commit
 [docstrings]: http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example_google.html#example-google-style-python-docstrings
 [goog-style]: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html#Comments
diff --git a/tests/test_middlewares.py b/tests/test_middlewares.py
index 9c37e3496..226e57f5f 100644
--- a/tests/test_middlewares.py
+++ b/tests/test_middlewares.py
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ def test_log_get_request(self):
         self.assertIn("start_time", context)
         self.assertIn("mid_time", context)
         self.assertIn("end_time", context)
-        self.assertTrue(context['mid_time'] > context['start_time'],
+        self.assertTrue(context['mid_time'] >= context['start_time'],
                         "process_resource not executed after request")
-        self.assertTrue(context['end_time'] > context['start_time'],
+        self.assertTrue(context['end_time'] >= context['start_time'],
                         "process_response not executed after request")
 
 
@@ -151,9 +151,9 @@ def test_generate_trans_id_and_time_with_request(self):
         self.assertIn("start_time", context)
         self.assertIn("mid_time", context)
         self.assertIn("end_time", context)
-        self.assertTrue(context['mid_time'] > context['start_time'],
+        self.assertTrue(context['mid_time'] >= context['start_time'],
                         "process_resource not executed after request")
-        self.assertTrue(context['end_time'] > context['start_time'],
+        self.assertTrue(context['end_time'] >= context['start_time'],
                         "process_response not executed after request")
 
     def test_middleware_execution_order(self):
diff --git a/tests/test_request_body.py b/tests/test_request_body.py
index c8387f5fe..8b470398f 100644
--- a/tests/test_request_body.py
+++ b/tests/test_request_body.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import io
-import multiprocessing
+import threading
 from wsgiref import simple_server
 
 import requests
@@ -87,12 +87,12 @@ def on_put(self, req, resp):
             httpd = simple_server.make_server('127.0.0.1', 8989, api)
             httpd.serve_forever()
 
-        process = multiprocessing.Process(target=server)
-        process.daemon = True
-        process.start()
+        thread = threading.Thread(target=server)
+        thread.daemon = True
+        thread.start()
 
         # Let it boot
-        process.join(1)
+        thread.join(1)
 
         url = 'http://127.0.0.1:8989/echo'
         resp = requests.post(url, data=expected_body)
@@ -101,8 +101,6 @@ def on_put(self, req, resp):
         resp = requests.put(url, data=expected_body)
         self.assertEqual(resp.text, expected_body)
 
-        process.terminate()
-
     def test_body_stream_wrapper(self):
         data = testing.rand_string(SIZE_1_KB / 2, SIZE_1_KB)
         expected_body = data.encode('utf-8')
diff --git a/tests/test_utils.py b/tests/test_utils.py
index b6dc260f3..b5a0d350c 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8-*-
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 from datetime import datetime
 import functools
diff --git a/travis_scripts/install.sh b/travis_scripts/install.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..64230c00d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis_scripts/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+if [ "$JYTHON" = "true" ]; then
+    travis_scripts/install_jython2.7.sh
+    $HOME/jython/bin/pip install -r tools/test-requires
+else
+    pip install tox coveralls --use-mirrors
+fi
diff --git a/travis_scripts/install_jython2.7.sh b/travis_scripts/install_jython2.7.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..0ab6d56a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis_scripts/install_jython2.7.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+JYTHON_URL="http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/python/jython-installer/2.7-rc2/jython-installer-2.7-rc2.jar"
+wget $JYTHON_URL -O jython_installer.jar
+java -jar jython_installer.jar -s -d $HOME/jython
diff --git a/travis_scripts/run_tests.sh b/travis_scripts/run_tests.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..5d5bc9603
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis_scripts/run_tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+if [ "$JYTHON" = "true" ]; then
+    $HOME/jython/bin/nosetests
+else
+    tox -e $TOX_ENV
+fi