Serving static html files using DefaultServlet on embedded Jetty

I'm working on a project that needs to be self contained so I've decided to embed Jetty in my app. I'm gonna be serving static HTML pages, a few JSP pages, and also will be using some custom servlets. I've found a perfect example of how to setup the embedded Jetty to accomplish all of this (http://thinking.awirtz.com/2011/11/03/embedded-jetty-servlets-and-jsp/), however, since this is the first time I'll be using Jetty and working with JSP pages or servlets, I've got a few basic questions.

Here's the code (as found in the link above):

class RunServer {
  public static void main(String args[]) {

    System.out.println("Initializing server...");
    final ServletContextHandler context =
      new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
    context.setContextPath("/");
    context.setResourceBase("webapp");

    context.setClassLoader(
        Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
    );

    context.addServlet(DefaultServlet.class, "/");

    final ServletHolder jsp =
      context.addServlet(JspServlet.class, "*.jsp");
    jsp.setInitParameter("classpath", context.getClassPath());

    // add your own additional servlets like this:
    // context.addServlet(JSONServlet.class, "/json");

    final Server server = new Server(8080);
    server.setHandler(context);

    System.out.println("Starting server...");
    try {
        server.start();
    } catch(Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Failed to start server!");
        return;
    }

    System.out.println("Server running...");
    while(true) {
        try {
            server.join();
        } catch(InterruptedException e) {
            System.out.println("Server interrupted!");
        }
    }
  }
}

I've added an additional custom servlet and I got that working great, however, I'm having issues with the static content (ie: HTML files). I keep getting "file not found" errors when trying to access them. I'm pretty sure that's because I'm not 100% sure where I should be placing my HTML files. I'm assuming that the line that says "context.setResourceBase("webapp");" is the line that tells the various servlets where to look for the files (ie: resources), however, I'm not sure what "webapp" actually points to. Is it a folder, a class name, an actual file?

I highly appreciated any help on what "webapp" actually is (or points to), and also where to put my static files in my project.

Thanks, Harry

webapp is the directory you should create and place your static files in. :) If you have a maven project it'll be "src/main/webapp" in the root of your project.