Installation and deploing:

Dependencies: java ant ivy jetty

Building, and deploing example for ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install ant sudo apt-get install ivy sudo apt-get install jetty

sudo cp /usr/share/java/ivy.jar /usr/share/ant/lib/ivy.jar

git clone https://github.com/alexglue/unicorn.git cd ./unicorn ant retrieve default_conf war sudo mv ./dist/unicorn.war /usr/share/jetty/webapps/ sudo service jetty restart

Now your service will be available from http://localhost:8080/unicorn/