The Maven team is pleased to announce the Jetty plugin 1.0 release!

http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/jetty

The Maven Jetty plugin allows easy deployment and execution of Jetty.

Features in this version includes:

o Ability to automatically generate the Jetty XML configuration file
o Ability to start Jetty
o Deployment of WAR defined as dependencies and tagged with the 
  jetty.bundle property
o Deployment of the current project if it's a WAR project

Note that this plugin has been tested with Maven 1.0-rc2. Using it with
another version of Maven is at your own risks! :-)

You can download the Jetty Maven plugin here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/jars/maven-jetty-plugin-1.0.jar

Have fun!
-Vincent