Mac 10.11 El Capitan Jetty Quick-Start Guide
The Mac Tutorial Shows You How-to Install and Getting-Started with Latest Jetty 9+ Java EE Web Server Stable Release on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan Unix/BSD.
The Jetty Java Web Server provides an HTTP server and Servlet container capable of serving static and dynamic content either from a standalone or embedded instantiations.
Jetty Main Features:
- Asynchronous HTTP Server
- Standards based Servlet Container
- Web Sockets server
- SPDY server
- Asynchronous HTTP Client
- OSGi, JNDI, JMX, JASPI, AJP support

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Download Latest Jetty Web Server Release:
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Double-Click on Archive to Extract
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Open a Command Line Terminal Window
Applications > Utilities > Terminal
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands) -
Relocating Jetty Web Server
sudo mv $HOME/Downloads/jetty* /opt/jetty
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How-to Install Recommended Oracle JDK 7+ on Mac OS X:
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Starting Jetty Web Server
cd /opt/jetty*
sudo java -jar start.jar
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Jetty Web Server Quick Deployment Guide:
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