Jetty is built with maven >= 2.0.8 Currently there is not eclipse maven repository and we are not yet cleared to make releases to the public maven repositories. Thus in order to build jetty, you need to locally check out and build two modules used by the build system: cd /my/work/directory svn co http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/rt/org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-parent/trunk/jetty-parent jetty-parent cd jetty-parent mvn install cd .. svn co svn+ssh://gwilkins@dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/rt/org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-toolchain/trunk jetty-toolchain cd jetty-toolchain mvn install cd .. You can then build this project: cd /my/work/directory/jetty-7 mvn install