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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

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.

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