Installing the Jetty servlet container

Overview

Some of the data store implementations for XBRLAPI are designed to run within Java servlet containers. Moreover, XBRLAPI itself is suitable for use by Java servlets and so can motivate a need to have an installed Java servlet container.

This page gives terse suggestions for setting up the Jetty servlet container to host XML database that can act as data stores for XBRLAPI. More details on Jetty installation and configuration are available from Jetty documentation.

Obtaining and installing Jetty

XBRLAPI has been tested with XML databases running from within both Tomcat and Jetty. This document covers Jetty which can be downloaded from jetty.mortbay.org. Go to the download page and get the zip file that contains the latest version of Jetty.

Unpack the zip file into the location that you want Jetty to be installed. Generally, at this point Jetty will be installed and running from http://localhost:8080/. Open that URL (or another if you have configured Jetty to use a different port or domain name) to see if it worked. If it failed, follow the Jetty configuration instructions that are available on the Jetty website.