Thanks Jerome, that was the problem. I had j2se installed, not j2ee so I did not have the javax.servlet package on my system.
To fix this, I added javaee.jar from the j2ee installation to my classpath and then jetty started working. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1097600
