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You can use Jetty in many different ways ranging from embedding Jetty in applications, launching it from different build systems, from different JVM-based languages, or as a standalone distribution. This documentation covers the latter, a standalone distribution suitable for deploying web applications.
The standalone Jetty distribution is available for download from the Eclipse Foundation:
It is available in both zip and gzip formats; download the one most appropriate for your system. Notice that
there are a number of other files with extensions of .sha or .md5 which are checksum files. When you download and
unpack the binary, it is extracted into a directory called jetty-distribution-VERSION. Put
this directory in a convenient location. The rest of the instructions in this documentation refer to this location
as either JETTY_HOME or as $(jetty.home).
This is a quick rundown of the distribution's contents. The top-level directory contains:
Table 2.1. Contents
| Location | Description |
|---|---|
| license-eplv10-aslv20.html | License file for Jetty |
| README.txt | Useful getting started information |
| VERSION.txt | Release information |
| bin | Utility shell scripts to help run Jetty on Unix systems |
| etc | Directory for Jetty configuration files |
| lib | All the JAR files necessary to run Jetty |
| logs | Directory for request logs |
| notice.html | License information and exceptions |
| resources | Directory containing additional resources for classpath, activated via configuration |
| start.ini | Configuration file for starting Jetty |
| start.jar | Jar that invokes Jetty (see also Running Jetty) |
| webapps | Directory containing webapps which will be run under the default configuration of Jetty; contains demo webapps |
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