Section 2.2 Installing Jetty 6
Follow these steps to install Jetty 6:
1. After downloading Jetty 6, unzip the folder. The folder must contain all of the following:
- Contexts – This folder contains hot deploy directory.
- Etc – This folder contains jetty configuration files.
- Examples – This contains sample webapps demonstrating various features and code examples of embedding Jetty.
- Extras – This contains optional extensions to Jetty.
- Legal – This folder contains the license agreements for the project.
- Lib – This contains all the jar files necessary to run Jetty 6.
- Modules – This folder contains all of the source submodules.
- Patches – This contains contributed source patches.
- pom.xml – This is a Maven 2 build file for Jetty 6 (see also 2.3 Building from Source)
- Project-site – This folder contains the Jetty 6 website.
- README.txt – This contains useful getting started information
- start.jar – This is the jar that invokes Jetty 6 (see also 3. Running).
- VERSION.txt – This is an abbreviated change log for each release.
- Webapps – This folder contains webapps run by Jetty.
- Webapps-plus – This contains some webapps demonstrating the extended features of Jetty 6.
2. Open README.txt for useful information on getting started.
3. Follow the instructions in Running Jetty (refer to README.txt).