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The format of <code class="literal">jetty-web.xml</code> is the same as <a class="xref" href="jetty-xml-config.html" title="jetty.xml"><code class="literal">jetty.xml</code></a> &#8211; it is an XML mapping of the Jetty API.</p><p>This document offers an overview for using the <code class="literal">jetty-web.xml</code> configuration file.
For a more in-depth look at the syntax, see <a class="xref" href="reference-section.html#jetty-xml-syntax" title="Jetty XML Syntax">Jetty XML Syntax</a>.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="root-element-jetty-web-xml"></a>Root Element</h3></div></div></div><p><code class="literal">jetty-web.xml</code> applies on a per-webapp basis, and configures an instance of <code class="literal">org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext</code>.</p><pre 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"><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
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When Jetty deploys a web application, it looks for a file called <code class="literal">WEB-INF/jetty-web.xml</code> or <code class="literal">WEB-INF/web-jetty.xml</code> within the web application (or WAR) and applies the configuration found there.
Be aware that <code class="literal">jetty-web.xml</code> is called <span class="emphasis"><em>after</em></span> all other configuration has been applied to the web application.</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="jetty-web-xml-examples"></a><code class="literal">jetty-web.xml</code> Examples</h3></div></div></div><p>The distribution contains an example of <code class="literal">jetty-web.xml</code> inside the WEB-INF folder of the test webapp war (<code class="literal">$JETTY_HOME/webapps/test.war/WEB-INF/jetty-web.xml</code>).</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="additional-jetty-web-xml-resources"></a>Additional <code class="literal">jetty-web.xml</code> Resources</h3></div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><a class="xref" href="reference-section.html#jetty-xml-syntax" title="Jetty XML Syntax">Jetty XML Syntax</a> &#8211;in-depth reference for Jetty-specific configuration XML syntax.</li><li class="listitem"><a class="xref" href="jetty-xml-config.html" title="jetty.xml"><code class="literal">jetty.xml</code></a> &#8211;configuration file for configuring the entire server</li></ul></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript">
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