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Downloads
The following provides quick start installation instructions for Jetty. You can follow the link to Eclipse to download the latest Jetty core components, or you can download older Jetty versions directly from here. This page also provides Jetty packaged for Linux distributions and Hightide.
Jetty Releases from Eclipse
Jetty 7 and later core components have moved to Eclipse. Jetty 6 remains the latest stable version of Jetty, but we recommend that you use Jetty 7 for development starting from now.
An example of versioning for jetty-server-7.0.0.X in the org.eclipse.jetty packages, there could be several matching releases of the jetty-maven-plugin-7.0.0.y jetty-maven-plugin-7.0.0.y+1 from the org.mortbay packages etc.
- http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/downloads.php Eclipse Downloads.
- http://dist.codehaus.org/jetty/ Codehaus Downloads.
Jetty Releases from Codehaus
Jetty is distributed as a platform independent zip file containing source, javadocs and binaries:
- http://dist.codehaus.org/jetty/ Codehaus Downloads.
- http://ftp.mortbay.org/pub OLD FTP download site
Maven Repositories
- http://repository.codehaus.org/ public maven 2 releases (org.mortbay)
- http://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/jetty/ public snapshots (org.mortbay)
- http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org OLD repository (org.mortbay)
Linux Distributions
Hightide releases
Hightide is a release of Jetty bundled with JNDI, JTA, JMS, and other EE technologies.
- http://www.webtide.com/resources/downloads.jsp Download for Jetty Hightide releases.
Other
- http://www.webtide.com/eclipse Jetty Eclipse plugin download site.
Versions
Versions are describe in the Jetty 6 Changelog.
| Version | Java | HTTP | Servlet | JSP | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jetty-7.0 codehaus | 1.5- | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 3.0 | 2.1 | No longer available | Standardized async |
| Jetty-6.1 | 1.4-1.6 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.5 | 2.1 or 2.0 | Stable | Async SSL, AJP, cometd, testing |
| Jetty-6 | 1.4-1.5 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.5 | 2.1 or 2.0 | Deprecated | Continuations, IOC, NIO, dynamic buffers, smaller, faster, better |
| Jetty-5.1 | 1.2-1.5 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.4 | 2.0 | Stable | J2EE 1.4 Compliance tested, optimizations, geronimo integration. |
| Jetty-5.0 | 1.2-1.4 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.4 | 2.0 | Deprecated | Schema, JettyPlus |
| Jetty-4.2 | 1.2-1.4 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.3+ | 1.2 | Mature | JettyPlus |
| Jetty-4.1 | 1.2-1.4 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.3 | 1.2 | Deprecated | JAXP1.1, AJP13(mod_jk) |
| Jetty-4.0 | 1.2 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2616 | 2.3 | 1.2 | Deprecated | |
| Jetty-3.1 | 1.2 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2068 | 2.2 | 1.1 | Ancient | JMX |
| Jetty-3.0 | 1.2 | HTTP/1.1 RFC2068 | 2.2 | 1.1 | Fossilized | |
| Jetty-2.4 | 1.1 | HTTP/1.0 RFC1945 | 2.1 | 1.0 | Legendary | |
| Jetty-1.0 | 1.0 | HTTP/1.0 RFC1945 | - | - | Mythical |
Jetty 6 is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license with details listed in the NOTICE file.
For the latest comparison table of versions (starting from Jetty 6.1) see the Versions table on the Eclipse Wiki.
Installing Jetty
Please see the Quick Start for installing binary versions of Jetty. For installing other versions please see Installation Instructions for Other Versions.
