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Jetty/Starting/Installing Jetty-7.0.x
Contents
Introduction
The following provides detailed instructions for downloading and installing the latest version of Jetty 7. If you just want to get up and running, see the Quick Start Guide.
Prerequisites
Hardware
- ~7 MB of disk space for Jetty source
- ~7 MB for Jetty 7 binaries
Operating System
- Any operating system that supports J2SE 1.5 or greater.
Environment
- J2SE 1.5 or greater
Downloading the Binaries
The Jetty core component binaries can be found on the Jetty downloads page. Other available binaries and packages for download are listed on Downloading Jetty.
Inspecting the Distribution
Unzip the distribution you just downloaded. The top-level directory should look like:
about.html contexts etc javadoc LICENSE-APACHE-2.0.txt logs notice.html resources webapps bin contexts-available INCUBATION.txt lib LICENSE-ECLIPSE-1.0.html META-INF README.txt start.jar
- about.html
- "About This Content" page from Eclipse
- bin
- directory for shell scripts to help automate the building and running of Jetty
- contexts
- hot deploy directory
- contexts-available
- directory for additional example contexts
- etc
- directory for Jetty configuration files
- INCUBATION.TXT
- README explaining Jetty's current incubation status within the Eclipse project
- javadoc
- contains the javadoc; needs to be built first
- lib
- contains all the JAR files necessary to run jetty-7
- LICENSE-APACHE-2.0.TXT
- license file for Jetty (Jetty 7 is dual-licensed)
- LICENSE-ECLIPSE-1.0.HTML
- license file for Jetty (Jetty 7 is dual-licensed)
- logs
- directory for request logs
- META-INF
- for packaging
- notice.html
- licenses applicable to Jetty, as well as any exceptions
- README.TXT
- contains useful getting started information
- resources
- directory containing additional resources for configuration
- start.jar
- JAR which invokes jetty-7 (see also Running Jetty
- webapps
- directory containing webapps which will be run under the default configuration of Jetty; contains demo webapps
Downloading the Source Code
Check out the source code using SVN: