I have just tried out the latest jetty build (9.0.5.v20130815) with Java 7u40 on Linux and I am getting this:
2013-09-13 09:48:20.659:WARN:oejuc.AbstractLifeCycle:main: FAILED org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server@246fd685: MultiException[java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.getSuportedCipherSuiteList()Lsun/security/ssl/CipherSuiteList;, java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.getSuportedCipherSuiteList()Lsun/security/ssl/CipherSuiteList;]
MultiException[java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.getSuportedCipherSuiteList()Lsun/security/ssl/CipherSuiteList;, java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.getSuportedCipherSuiteList()Lsun/security/ssl/CipherSuiteList;]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:286)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$1.run(XmlConfiguration.java:1237)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:1161)
Exception in thread "main" MultiException[java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.getSuportedCipherSuiteList()Lsun/security/ssl/CipherSuiteList;, java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.getSuportedCipherSuiteList()Lsun/security/ssl/CipherSuiteList;]
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:286)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$1.run(XmlConfiguration.java:1237)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:1161)
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.getSuportedCipherSuiteList()Lsun/security/ssl/CipherSuiteList;
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.getSupportedCipherSuites(SSLEngineImpl.java:1982)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory.customize(SslContextFactory.java:1382)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory.newSSLEngine(SslContextFactory.java:1320)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory.doStart(SslContextFactory.java:305)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:108)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:90)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.SslConnectionFactory.doStart(SslConnectionFactory.java:64)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:108)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:90)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractConnector.doStart(AbstractConnector.java:259)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractNetworkConnector.doStart(AbstractNetworkConnector.java:81)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:303)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$1.run(XmlConfiguration.java:1237)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:1161)
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.getSuportedCipherSuiteList()Lsun/security/ssl/CipherSuiteList;
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.getSupportedCipherSuites(SSLEngineImpl.java:1982)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory.customize(SslContextFactory.java:1382)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory.newSSLEngine(SslContextFactory.java:1320)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.SslConnectionFactory.doStart(SslConnectionFactory.java:66)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:108)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:90)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractConnector.doStart(AbstractConnector.java:259)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractNetworkConnector.doStart(AbstractNetworkConnector.java:81)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:303)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$1.run(XmlConfiguration.java:1237)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:1161)