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README.TXT

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-This is a source checkout of the Eclipse Jetty webserver. 
-
-To build, use:
-
-  mvn clean install
-
-The jetty distribution will be built in
-
-  jetty-distribution/target/distribution
-
-The first build may take a long time as Maven downloads all the
-dependencies.
-
-The tests do a lot of stress testing, and on some machines it is
-necessary to set the file descriptor limit to greater than 2048
-for the tests to all pass successfully.
-
-Bypass tests by building with -Dmaven.test.skip=true but note
-that this will not produce some test jars that are leveraged
-in other places in the build.
-
-See also README.md

README.md

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 Project documentation is located on our Eclipse website.
 
 - [http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation](http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation)
-- README.TXT
+
+Building
+========
+
+To build, use:
+```shell
+  mvn clean install
+```
+
+The jetty distribution will be built in `jetty-distribution/target/distribution`
+
+The first build may take a long time as Maven downloads all the dependencies.
+
+The tests do a lot of stress testing, and on some machines it is necessary to set the file descriptor limit to greater than 2048 for the tests to all pass successfully.
+
+Bypass tests by building with `mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install` but note that this will not produce some test jars that are leveraged in other places in the build.
 
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