Dan and Willem, It looks to me like I'm fairly nearly stuck until you let me fully control the server wiring unless I'm willing to do some fairly extensive rewiring of your wiring.
The jetty doc isn't precisely helpful here, but I have reached the following tentative view of the situation: As things are, the org.mortbay.jetty.Server has, as its singular handler, a ContextHandlerCollection, which has (at least one) ContextHandler. ContextHandlers are all about Servlet contexts, of course. Once a ContextHandlerCollection has at least one ContextHandler, it ignores any ordinary handlers that it has when handling any request that begins with '/'. So, to get a ResourceHandler into the game, I think that I'd have to create a HandlerList and have that point off to the ContextHandlerCollection as well as the ResourceHandler, and install it as the server's handler. I have a giant feeling here that there's something basic I'm missing about Jetty that is supposed to make this easier, but I'm pretty near to accusing the folks who run the Jetty web site of intentionally making the version 6 docs less helpful than the version 5 docs to sell more consulting. Probably just sour grapes on my part. --benson
