How do I stop Jetty

Question

I am new to Jetty and client/server architectures.

I managed to write a jetty server in eclipse and it works.

But how I can stop a jetty server? I heard something about stop.jar and start.jar. Where I can find it? Is it integrated in jetty-all-jar?

Answer 1

The various jetty-all.jar artifacts can be used for embedded jetty usage. If you decide to use this jar, you have to manage your own startup / shutdown.

Update: 2015 : As of Jetty 9, the use of jetty-all.jar as a dependency is deprecated. This is because as of Jetty 9, it is now impossible to satisfy "all" of Jetty in a single aggregate jar. There are components of Jetty that cannot be included as they will cause problems with this aggregate jar. The future of Jetty, with HTTP/2 support, also makes this aggregate jar less useful as a dependency.

Typical Embedded Mode usage

The thread that starts the server:

Server server = new Server();
// various server configuration lines
// ...

// Start server (on current thread)
server.start();

// Have current thread wait till server is done running
server.join();

The other thread that tells the server to shutdown

// Have server stop running
server.stop();

At this point the original thread's wait on server.join(); is complete and that thread continues to run.

Standard Distribution Usage

If you use the standard distribution available from download.eclipse.org/jetty/ you have the start.jar that can be used to start/stop jetty itself.

Once you have unpacked your jetty-distribution, you'll find a start.jar in the top most directory. This can be used as the following.

The process that starts jetty:

$ java -jar start.jar STOP.PORT=28282 STOP.KEY=secret

The process that stops jetty:

$ java -jar start.jar STOP.PORT=28282 STOP.KEY=secret --stop