Jetty FAQ  

These frequently asked questions have been contributed by Jetty users. If you have a question and/or answer that is not here, email Jetty Discuss.

FAQ

• Where is the latest FAQ?
• Who wrote the FAQ?
• Have you read the README?
• Have you read the Tutorial?

General

• What is the Jetty Architecture?
• Why is it called Jetty?
• Can Jetty Hot Deploy?
• Should I use Servlets or HttpHandlers?
• Is Jetty Compliant?
• How do I use Jetty with Avalon Phoenix?
• Can Jetty be run with Apache?
• Why do I see my JSP source?
• Why has my webapp suddenly stopped working?

Configuration

• What is jetty.xml?
• What is web.xml?
• What is webdefault.xml?
• What is jetty-web.xml?
• I'm having class loading problems?
• How do I configure logging?
• Where are Jetty's temporary directories?
• Does Jetty support statistics gathering?
• What System Properties can I set for Jetty?

HTTP

• How do I run Jetty on a specific port?
• Can I run a non root user on port 80?
• Does Jetty support virtual hosts?

Security

• Aliases and Symbolic Links
• How do I use Client Certificate Authentication?
• Is Jetty secure?
• Configuring SSL for Jetty
• Can Jetty do Single Sign On Authentication?
• Can I suppress the server version header?

Servlets

• How are Servlet paths mapped?
• Can Jetty reload servlets?

J2EE

• Is Jetty J2EE Compliant?
• Jetty JBoss Integration.
• Does Jetty support JSR77 statistics?

JBoss

• Does Jetty/JBoss support single sign on?
• I am getting errors when I deploy the Jetty sar in JBoss. What can I do?

Clustering

• How can I perform load balancing with Jetty?
• Can Jetty be run with mod_jk?

Content

• Can Jetty do CGI?
• How do I work with international characters?
• How can I deploy JSPs?
• Can Jetty do WebDAV

IDEs

• Can I launch Jetty from Eclipse?
• How do I run Jetty from IntelliJ IDEA?

JSP

• How do I control JSP scratch files?
• Can I use Jikes to compile JSPs?

WebStart

• Can I embed Jetty in a Web Start application?