Jetty provides a configuration switch in the webdefault.xml file for the DefaultServlet that enables or disables the use of memory-mapped files. If you are running on Windows and are having file-locking problems, you should set this switch to disable memory-mapped file buffers.

The default webdefault.xml file is found in the jetty distribution under the etc/ directory or in the jetty-webapp-${VERSION}.jar artifact at org/eclipse/jetty/webapp/webdefault.xml. Edit the file in the distribution or extract it to a convenient disk location and edit it to change useFileMappedBuffer to false. The easiest option is to simply edit the default file contained in the jetty distribution itself.

<init-param>
   <param-name>useFileMappedBuffer</param-name>
   <param-value>true</param-value> <!-- change to false -->
 </init-param>

Make sure to apply your custom webdefault.xml file to all of your webapps. You can do that by changing the configuration of the Deployment Manager in etc/jetty-deploy.xml.

<Call id="webappprovider" name="addAppProvider">
  <Arg>
    <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.providers.WebAppProvider">
      .
      .
      <!-- this should be the new custom webdefault.xml or change should be made in this file -->
      <Set name="defaultsDescriptor"><Property name="jetty.home" default="." />/etc/webdefault.xml</Set>
      <Set name="scanInterval">1</Set>
      <Set name="extractWars">true</Set>
      .
      .
    </New>
  </Arg>
</Call>

Alternatively, if you have individually configured your webapps with context xml files, you need to call the WebAppContext.setDefaultsDescriptor(String path) method:

<New id="myWebAppContext"  class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
  <Set name="contextPath">/</Set>
  <Set name="war">./webapps/fredapp</Set>
  <Set name="defaultsDescriptor">/home/fred/jetty/mywebdefaults.xml</Set>
  .
  .
</New>

Instead, you could redefine the DefaultServlet in your web.xml file, making sure to set useFileMappedBuffer to false:

<web-app ...>
 ...
 <servlet>
     <servlet-name>Default</servlet-name>
     <servlet-class>org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
     <init-param>
       <param-name>useFileMappedBuffer</param-name>
       <param-value>false</param-value>
     </init-param>
     <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
   </servlet>
 ...
 </web-app>

You can force a WebAppContext to always copy a web app directory on deployment. The base directory of your web app (ie the root directory where your static content exists) will be copied to the temp directory. Configure this in an xml file like so:

<New id="myWebAppContext"  class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
  <Set name="contextPath">/</Set>
  <Set name="war">./webapps/fredapp</Set>
  <Set name="copyWebDir">true</Set>
  .
  .
</New>