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This guide covers the latter, a standalone distribution suitable for deploying web applications.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="jetty-downloading"></a>Downloading Jetty</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="quick-start-getting-started.html#_downloading_the_jetty_distribution">Downloading the Jetty Distribution</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="quick-start-getting-started.html#jetty-home-downloading">Downloading the Jetty-Home Distribution</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="_downloading_the_jetty_distribution"></a>Downloading the Jetty Distribution</h3></div></div></div><p>The standalone Jetty distribution is available for download from the Eclipse Foundation:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p><span class="strong"><strong>Jetty</strong></span>
<a class="link" href="https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/download.html" target="_top">https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/download.html</a></p></blockquote></div><p>It is available in both zip and gzip formats; download the one most appropriate for your system.
When you download and unpack the binary, it is extracted into a directory called <code class="literal">jetty-distribution-VERSION.</code>
Put this directory in a convenient location.
The rest of the instructions in this documentation refer to this location as either <code class="literal">$JETTY_HOME</code> or as <code class="literal">$(jetty.home).</code></p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><div xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times" class="important" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title"><i class="fa fa-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i> Important</h3><p>It is important that <span class="strong"><strong>only</strong></span> stable releases are used in production environments.
Versions that have been deprecated or are released as Milestones (M) or Release Candidates (RC) are <span class="strong"><strong>not</strong></span> suitable for production as they may contain security flaws or incomplete/non-functioning feature sets.</p></div></blockquote></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="distribution-content"></a>Distribution Content</h4></div></div></div><p>A summary of the distribution&#8217;s contents follows.
The top-level directory contains:</p><div class="table"><a name="d0e1208"></a><p class="title"><b>Table&nbsp;2.1.&nbsp;Contents</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="Contents" border="1" width="80%"><colgroup><col class="col_1"><col class="col_2"></colgroup><thead><tr><th align="left" valign="top">Location</th><th align="left" valign="top">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>license-eplv10-aslv20.html</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>License file for Jetty</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>README.txt</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Useful getting started information</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>VERSION.txt</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Release information</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>bin/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Utility shell scripts to help run Jetty on Unix systems</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>demo-base/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>A Jetty base directory to run a Jetty server with demonstration webapps</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>etc/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Directory for Jetty XML configuration files</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>lib/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>All the JAR files necessary to run Jetty</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>logs/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Directory for request logs</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>modules/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Directory of module definitions</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>notice.html</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>License information and exceptions</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>resources/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Directory containing additional resources for classpath, activated via configuration</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>start.ini</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>File containing the arguments that are added to the effective command line (modules, properties and XML configuration files)</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>start.jar</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Jar that invokes Jetty (see also <a class="xref" href="quickstart-running-jetty.html" title="Running Jetty">Running Jetty</a>)</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>webapps/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Directory containing webapps that run under the default configuration of Jetty</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break"></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="jetty-home-downloading"></a>Downloading the Jetty-Home Distribution</h3></div></div></div><p>Jetty-Home is an alternate version of the distribution that contains only the necessary items to host a Jetty distribution.
It is intended for advanced users who are already familiar with Jetty and want to download a smaller distribution package.
Jetty-Home can be downloaded from the Maven Central repository:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p><span class="strong"><strong>Jetty-Home</strong></span>
<a class="link" href="https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-home/" target="_top">https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-home/</a></p></blockquote></div><p>Like the main Jetty distribution, Jetty-Home 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 <code class="literal">jetty-home-VERSION.</code>
Put this directory in a convenient location.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="jetty-home-distribution-content"></a>Distribution Content</h4></div></div></div><p>A summary of the Jetty-Home&#8217;s distribution contents follows.
The top-level directory contains:</p><div class="table"><a name="d0e1346"></a><p class="title"><b>Table&nbsp;2.2.&nbsp;Contents</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="Contents" border="1" width="80%"><colgroup><col class="col_1"><col class="col_2"></colgroup><thead><tr><th align="left" valign="top">Location</th><th align="left" valign="top">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>license-eplv10-aslv20.html</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>License file for Jetty</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>VERSION.txt</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Release information</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>etc/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Directory for Jetty XML configuration files</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>lib/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>All the JAR files necessary to run Jetty</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>modules/</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Directory of module definitions</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>notice.html</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>License information and exceptions</p></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>start.jar</p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Jar that invokes Jetty (see also <a class="xref" href="quickstart-running-jetty.html" title="Running Jetty">Running Jetty</a>)</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break"></div></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript">
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