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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.

Jetty Releases from Codehaus

Jetty is distributed as a platform independent zip file containing source, javadocs and binaries:

Maven Repositories

Linux Distributions

Hightide releases

Hightide is a release of Jetty bundled with JNDI, JTA, JMS, and other EE technologies.

Other

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.

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Contact the core Jetty developers at www.webtide.com
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