Jetty/Howto/Install Jetty/Bundle
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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