With jetty12 you need to perform some extra configuration step. java -jar $JETTY_HOME/start.jar --add-modules=ee8-deploy systemctl restart jetty12 Notice: at the time of writing this, jetty12 is not completely functional in Debian yet. See: - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1108253 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1108370 Once jetty12 is properly configured, css-validator webapp is reachable at: http://localhost:8080/css-validator