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+The Maven team is pleased to announce the Jetty plugin 1.0 release!
+
+http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/jetty
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+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
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