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Case

My project is deployed via Maven on a Jetty 6 server. I have to upgrade the server to Jetty 7.
(BTW: notice that the plugin maven-jetty-plugin was renamed as jetty-maven-plugin)

I get this error:

 Cause: Class name which was explicitly given in configuration using 'implementation' attribute: 'org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector' cannot be loaded

Quick fix

org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector was removed from Jetty with the release 7. To fix the issue, use a more recent implementation. For instance, replace this block:

<connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector">

with that one:

<connector implementation="org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector">