Dan, The most interesting thing that dawned on me is that a JettyHTTPHandler \is a/ Jetty \Handler/. Thus, I can instantiate Jetty's standard static content handler and call it from a subclass of JettyHTTPHandler, since the same arguments that come into JettyHTTPHandler can be delegated to the handlers in Jetty and thus avoid the need for what you sent.
To use what you sent, I'd need to fill in the suffix-to-mime-type department. Not the end of the world, and borrowable from Jetty, but still clumsy compared to just using Jetty's stuff. I appreciate your coaching on the transport factory. You presumably saw the JIRA I created when I tried to reduce the number of extra classes I had to create by registering my own subclass of the server engine factory as the bus extension instead of using my own transport factory to return my own server engine factory to return my own server engine. Ironically, I want to get rid of the program I have that uses the embedded server and replace it with a spring deployment inside a WAR inside Jetty. However, it was going to be easier on various people if I got it working, instead. I have this feeling that I don't have an adequate design understanding of the relationship between the bus, the spring wiring, and the hardcoded defaults, so please excuse anything goofy I send. --benson