Installing Jetty 6.1.x

Downloading the Distribution

See Downloading Jetty

Installing Jetty

All you need to do is to unzip the distribution. The top level directory should look like:

contexts etc  examples  extras lib LICENSES modules  patches  pom.xml  project-website  README.txt  start.jar  VERSION.txt  webapps  webapps-plus

The files and directories are:

• contexts hot deploy directory
• etc is the directory for jetty configuration files
• examples contains sample webapps demonstrating various features and code examples of embedding Jetty
• extras contains optional extensions to jetty
• lib contains all the jar files necessary to run jetty6
• LICENSES contains the license agreements for the project
• modules contains all of the source submodules
• patches contains contributed source patches
• pom.xml is the maven2 build file for jetty6 (see also Building from Source)
• project-website contains the jetty6 website
• README.txt contains useful getting started information
• start.jar is the jar that invokes jetty6 (see also Running Jetty-6.1.x)
• VERSION.txt is an abbreviated change log for each release
• webapps a directory containing some demo webapps
• webapps-plus a directory containing some webapps demonstrating the extended features of jetty6 (see also JNDI)

Running Jetty