How to start an aggregate jetty-server JAR from Ant?

Question

Background

Disclaimer: I have very little experience with Java.

We previously used a wrapped version of Jetty 6 for on-demand sta

Answer 1

You use it as a dependency for an embedded usage of jetty.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Tutorial/Embedding_Jetty

it is not appropriate for usage with the start.jar, that is a mechanism for knitting together a classpath suitable to launch jetty with, not as a generalized jar launcher.