Before I finish the story I started, I see that I could get what I want around here by making a mutant copy of JettyHTTPServerEngine and using it by imposing my own subclass of JettyHTTPServerEngineFactory. So I'm looking around to see where I can configure THAT trick.
In XFire, I made a variation on XFireHttpServer in which I could have
the following ...
ResourceHandler rh = new ResourceHandler();
rh.setDirAllowed(true);
context.addHandler(rh);
context.setResourceBase(staticContentDirectory);
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