maven jetty plugin

maven jetty plugin

In this section, you will learn about implementing jetty plugin of maven inside web applications.

Jetty offers  javax.servlet container , an HTTP server and HTTP client. You can use these elements for commercial usage and distribution as these elements are open source.

The apache-maven-2.2.1 versions is used in the below example.

First, you need to create web application using maven using following command :

For complete example(web application structure creation using maven) click here.

Edit the pom.xml and add the plugin configuration under <plugin> tag as follows :

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>net.roseindia</groupId>
<artifactId>roseindia-webapp</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0</version>
<name>roseindia-webapp Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>roseindia-webapp</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<version>6.1.10</version>


<configuration>
<scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
<webAppConfig>
<contextPath>/</contextPath>

</webAppConfig>

<connectors>
<connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
<port>9090</port>
<maxIdleTime>60000</maxIdleTime>
</connector>
</connectors>
</configuration>
</plugin>

</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Run the following command after adding configuration for jetty plugin :

Now using jetty server, you can run your web application using mvn jetty: run command as follows :

Inside project_maven directory, you can see the change in the structure (target folder, which also held the compile classes) :

Call the following URL in browser(http://localhost:9090 ) , you will get the following output :