How to deploy a standard java web application, say in the directory c:\work\test1, to jetty?
1. create test1.xml under /contexts
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd">
<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
<Set name="contextPath">/test1</Set>
<Set name="war">/work/test1</Set>
</Configure>
2. start the jetty web server
java -jar start.jar etc/jetty.xml
3. test. type the following url in the browser
http://localhost:8080/test1