Jetty/Howto/Configure Jetty

Introduction

Jetty configuration is a combination of configuration of the HTTP server, the web container and the web application.

Jetty itself is a collection of Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) and can be configured in several ways:

• Calling the API from a java program (see the Embedding Jetty Tutorial).
• Calling the API from jetty XML (see XML syntax reference and jetty.xml reference).
• Assemble POJOs from Spring (see the File Server with spring example).
• Use the jetty-maven-plugin

Web applications (aka WARs, webapps and contexts) can be configured either with standard based web.xml, annotations or via calling the jetty API directly (as above).