Jetty/Howto/Install Jetty/Bundle

Introduction

This howto 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

Steps

Download the Binary

Download the latest Jetty core component binary from the Jetty downloads page.

Unpack the Binary

Unzip the binary; it will be extracted into a directory called jetty-distribution-VERSION. Put this directory into a convenient location. The rest of the instructions in this wiki will refer to this location as either JETTY_HOME or as $(jetty.home).

That's it! The Jetty binary is now available for you to use. You may now choose to either run Jetty or configure Jetty.

Distribution Contents

Here's a quick rundown of the distribution's contents, to help you familiarize yourself with it. The top-level directory contains:

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)

META-INF 

for packaging

README.txt 

contains useful getting started information

VERSION.txt 

Release information

about.html 

"About This Content" page from Eclipse

bin 

utility shell scripts to help run Jetty on unix systems

contexts 

hot deploy contexts directory

etc 

directory for Jetty configuration files

javadoc 

contains the javadoc

lib 

contains all the JAR files necessary to run jetty

logs 

directory for request logs

notice.html 

licenses information and exceptions.

resources 

directory containing additional resources for classpath

start.ini 

Default start arguments

start.jar 

JAR which invokes jetty-7 (see also How to Run Jetty)

webapps 

directory containing webapps which will be run under the default configuration of Jetty; contains demo webapps