If you are looking for an Eclipse plugin that allows you to run a web application in Jetty through the Debug / Run menu, you can take a look at the run-jetty-run plugin .
If you use Maven, there is a Maven plugin , which you can use to run the application in Jetty. This can be configured to run by starting in Eclipse or run through the command line.
Edit - added more information about the bait plugin:
If you are just talking about local development, then you do not need to download Jetty separately for use with the Maven plugin. The Maven plugin controls the loading of the dependencies you need by simply running mvn jetty:run . This will launch your web application in Jetty (by default) at http: // localhost: 8080 . If you use this, then for the Eclipse plugin it really is not necessary. As for versions, these are available versions. I would recommend sticking with a fairly recent version if you don't need to use an older version of Jetty (it seems that the latest version is a candidate for release - 8.0.0.RC0).
There is also an example of use in a project on Github that I just found, but you can upgrade the plugin version.