Background

Disclaimer: I have very little experience with Java.

We previously used a wrapped version of Jetty 6 for on-demand static content (JS, CSS, images, HTML) during Ant builds so that we could run unit tests using PhantomJS against an environment hosted in HTTP.

However, Jetty is now on version 8.1.3, and we no longer need this packaging (which solves another issue that is currently controversial), so I would like to update it directly with Jetty 8.1.3.

First, I downloaded the entire Jetty distribution, which weighs about 40 MB. It works from Ant using "start.jar" ... but I really don't want to push unnecessary JARs there.

So, I downloaded the “jetty-server-8.1.3.v20120416.jar” aggregate (the last one) from the Maven repository, BUT I cannot use this JAR from Ant, as I could with “start.jar”, ​​for example, “java - jar jetty-server-8.1.3.v20120416.jar OPTIONS = Server "

Jetty's documentation is both poor and missing (404). Ugh!

Actual question

So, if I go back to using the full Jetty distribution with “start.jar” instead of the aggregate “Jetty server”, which is the minimum set of files (JARs and configs) from the full Jetty Distribution that I need for basic static server content through HTTP?

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