Embedded Jetty looking for files inside its Jar file

Question

I successfully embedded Jetty on a test application. It can serve files without issues. Now I want to know if it's possible for Jetty to serve files that are inside its own Jar file.

Does anyone know if that's possible?

Answer 1

An example is listed on the Jetty embedding page at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Embedding+Jetty

The trick is to create a File URL to your classpath location.

String webDir = this.class.getClassLoader().getResource("com/company/project/mywebdir").toExternalForm();  ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(); context.setContextPath("/"); context.setResourceBase(webDir);