diff --git a/apps/jetty/build.xml b/apps/jetty/build.xml
index 0377e74b89..f3de9bffa0 100644
--- a/apps/jetty/build.xml
+++ b/apps/jetty/build.xml
@@ -262,9 +262,6 @@
             <zipfileset src="${jetty.base}/lib/apache-jsp/org.eclipse.jetty.apache-jsp-${jetty.ver}.jar"/>
         </jar>
 
-        <!-- Ant bug, don't set update and filesetmanifest or the update doesn't happen,
-             Their bug tracker claims fixed in 1.8.0 but broken for me in 1.8.1
-          -->
         <jar destfile="jettylib/commons-logging.jar" update="true" >
             <manifest>
                 <attribute name="Note" value="Intentionally empty" />
diff --git a/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-jmx.xml b/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-jmx.xml
index 4db0dbb473..aca96f7c2c 100644
--- a/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-jmx.xml
+++ b/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-jmx.xml
@@ -1,103 +1,43 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_0.dtd">
 
-<!-- ============================================================================ -->
-<!-- To correctly start Jetty with JMX module enabled, this configuration         -->
-<!-- file must appear first in the list of the configuration files.               -->
-<!-- The simplest way to achieve this is to add etc/jetty-jmx.xml as the          -->
-<!-- first file in configuration file list at the end of start.ini file.          -->
-<!-- ============================================================================ -->
 <Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
 
   <!-- =========================================================== -->
   <!-- Set the java.rmi.server.hostname property in case you've    -->
   <!-- got a misconfigured /etc/hosts entry or the like.           -->
   <!-- =========================================================== -->
-  <!-- 
+  <!--
   <Call class="java.lang.System" name="setProperty">
     <Arg>java.rmi.server.hostname</Arg>
     <Arg>127.0.0.1</Arg>
   </Call>
   -->
-  
+
   <!-- =========================================================== -->
-  <!-- Initialize an mbean server                                  -->
+  <!-- Get the platform mbean server                               -->
   <!-- =========================================================== -->
   <Call id="MBeanServer" class="java.lang.management.ManagementFactory"
     name="getPlatformMBeanServer" />
 
   <!-- =========================================================== -->
-  <!-- Initialize the Jetty MBean container                        -->
+  <!-- Initialize the Jetty MBean container -->
   <!-- =========================================================== -->
-  <New id="MBeanContainer" class="org.eclipse.jetty.jmx.MBeanContainer">
-    <Arg><Ref id="MBeanServer" /></Arg>
-    <Call name="start"/>
-  </New>
-
-  <!-- Add to the Server to listen for object events -->
-  <Get id="Container" name="container">
-    <Call name="addEventListener">
-      <Arg><Ref id="MBeanContainer" /></Arg>
-    </Call>
-  </Get>
-
-  <!-- Add to the Server as a managed lifecycle -->
   <Call name="addBean">
-    <Arg><Ref id="MBeanContainer"/></Arg>
-    <Arg type="boolean">true</Arg>
+    <Arg>
+      <New id="MBeanContainer" class="org.eclipse.jetty.jmx.MBeanContainer">
+        <Arg>
+          <Ref refid="MBeanServer" />
+        </Arg>
+      </New>
+    </Arg>
   </Call>
 
   <!-- Add the static log -->
-  <Ref id="MBeanContainer">
-    <Call name="addBean">
-      <Arg>
-        <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log"/>
-      </Arg>
-    </Call>
-  </Ref>
-  
-  <!-- In order to connect to the JMX server remotely from a different
-       process, possibly running on a different host, Jetty JMX module
-       can create a remote JMX connector. It requires RMI registry to
-       be started prior to creating the connector server because the
-       JMX specification uses RMI to facilitate connections.        
-   -->
-
-  <!-- Optionally start the RMI registry. Normally RMI registry runs on
-       port 1099. The argument below can be changed in order to comply
-       with the firewall requirements.
-  -->
-  <!--
-  <Call name="createRegistry" class="java.rmi.registry.LocateRegistry">
-    <Arg type="java.lang.Integer"><SystemProperty name="jetty.jmxrmiport" default="1099"/></Arg>
-    <Call name="sleep" class="java.lang.Thread">
-       <Arg type="java.lang.Integer">1000</Arg>
-    </Call>
-  </Call>
-  -->
- 
-  <!-- Optionally add a remote JMX connector. The parameters of the constructor
-       below specify the JMX service URL, and the object name string for the
-       connector server bean. The parameters of the JMXServiceURL constructor 
-       specify the protocol that clients will use to connect to the remote JMX
-       connector (RMI), the hostname of the server (local hostname), port number
-       (automatically assigned), and the URL path. Note that URL path contains
-       the RMI registry hostname and port number, that may need to be modified
-       in order to comply with the firewall requirements. 
-  -->
-  <!--
-  <New id="ConnectorServer" class="org.eclipse.jetty.jmx.ConnectorServer">
+  <Call name="addBean">
     <Arg>
-      <New class="javax.management.remote.JMXServiceURL">
-        <Arg type="java.lang.String">rmi</Arg>
-        <Arg type="java.lang.String" />
-        <Arg type="java.lang.Integer"><SystemProperty name="jetty.jmxrmiport" default="1099"/></Arg>
-        <Arg type="java.lang.String">/jndi/rmi://<SystemProperty name="jetty.jmxrmihost" default="localhost"/>:<SystemProperty name="jetty.jmxrmiport" default="1099"/>/jmxrmi</Arg>
-      </New>
+      <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log" />
     </Arg>
-    <Arg>org.eclipse.jetty.jmx:name=rmiconnectorserver</Arg>
-    <Call name="start" />
-  </New>
-  -->
+  </Call>
 </Configure>
 
diff --git a/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-rewrite.xml b/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-rewrite.xml
index 1d208f8bfc..1f93937d5b 100644
--- a/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-rewrite.xml
+++ b/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-rewrite.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_0.dtd">
 
 <!-- =============================================================== -->
 <!-- Mixin the RewriteHandler                                        -->
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@
 <Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
 
     <!-- =========================================================== -->
-    <!-- configure rewrite handler                                   --> 
+    <!-- configure rewrite handler                                   -->
     <!-- =========================================================== -->
     <Get id="oldhandler" name="handler"/>
 
     <Set name="handler">
      <New id="Rewrite" class="org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewriteHandler">
-      <Set name="handler"><Ref id="oldhandler"/></Set>
+      <Set name="handler"><Ref refid="oldhandler"/></Set>
       <Set name="rewriteRequestURI">true</Set>
       <Set name="rewritePathInfo">false</Set>
       <Set name="originalPathAttribute">requestedPath</Set>
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
           </New>
         </Arg>
       </Call>
-      
+
       <!-- reverse the order of the path sections -->
       <Call name="addRule">
         <Arg>
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
           </New>
         </Arg>
       </Call>
-      
+
       <!--  actual redirect, instead of internal rewrite -->
       <Call name="addRule">
         <Arg>
@@ -113,5 +113,5 @@
 
      </New>
     </Set>
-    
+
 </Configure>
diff --git a/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-ssl.xml b/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-ssl.xml
index 79fe341f88..5b42684334 100644
--- a/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-ssl.xml
+++ b/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty-ssl.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd">
 
+<!-- This configuration supports Jetty 9. Do not remove this line. -->
+
 <!-- ========================================================================= -->
 <!-- If you have a 'split' directory installation, with configuration          -->
 <!-- files in ~/.i2p (Linux), %APPDATA%\I2P (Windows),                         -->
diff --git a/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty.xml b/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty.xml
index 51784fb873..dd2be4dddb 100644
--- a/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty.xml
+++ b/installer/resources/eepsite/jetty.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
 <!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd">
 
+<!-- This configuration supports Jetty 9. Do not remove this line. -->
+
 <!-- ========================================================================= -->
 <!-- This file configures the Jetty server.                                    -->
 <!-- All changes require a restart of I2P.                                     -->
diff --git a/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/startup/MigrateJetty.java b/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/startup/MigrateJetty.java
index c4ee2b65b6..db6476baac 100644
--- a/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/startup/MigrateJetty.java
+++ b/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/startup/MigrateJetty.java
@@ -215,6 +215,12 @@ abstract class MigrateJetty {
      *  @since Jetty 9
      */
     private static boolean migrateToJetty9(File xmlFile) {
+        if (xmlFile.getName().equals("jetty-jmx.xml")) {
+            // This is lazy but nobody's using jmx, not worth the trouble
+            System.err.println("ERROR: Migration  of " + xmlFile +
+                               " file is not supported. Copy new file from $I2P/eepsite-jetty9/jetty-jmx.xml");
+            return false;
+        }
         // we don't re-migrate from the template, we just add the
         // necessary args for the QueuedThreadPool constructor in-place
         // and fixup the renamed set call
@@ -237,7 +243,13 @@ abstract class MigrateJetty {
                 // readLine() doesn't strip \r
                 if (s.endsWith("\r"))
                     s = s.substring(0, s.length() - 1);
-                if (s.contains("org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool")) {
+                if (s.contains("Modified by I2P migration script for Jetty 9.") ||
+                    s.contains("This configuration supports Jetty 9.") ||
+                    s.contains("http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_0.dtd")) {
+                    if (!modified)
+                        break;
+                    // else we've modified it twice?
+                } else if (s.contains("org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool")) {
                     foundQTP = true;
                 } else if (foundQTP) {
                     if (!(s.contains("Modified by") || s.contains("<Arg type=\"int\">"))) {