Jetty Run War Using only command line

Question

Is it possible to use only the command line to Run jetty with only a specified war file and Context Path.

Something like :

java -jar $jettyHome/start.jar -Dwar.location=myApp.war -DcontextPath=/myApp OPTIONS=default,plus,jsp 

Answer 1

Use the jetty runner.

 java -jar jetty-runner.jar my.war 

With Maven, you can install by adding to your pom.xml:

<build>     ...     <plugins>         ...         <plugin>             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>             <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>             <version>2.3</version>             <executions>                 <execution>                     <phase>package</phase>                     <goals><goal>copy</goal></goals>                     <configuration>                         <artifactItems>                             <artifactItem>                                 <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>                                 <artifactId>jetty-runner</artifactId>                                 <version>7.5.4.v20111024</version>                                 <destFileName>jetty-runner.jar</destFileName>                             </artifactItem>                         </artifactItems>                     </configuration>                 </execution>             </executions>         </plugin>     </plugins> </build> 

Run:

mvn package 

And use as:

java -jar target/dependency/jetty-runner.jar target/*.war 

http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/runner.html

http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-runner/

Answer 2

I've written a tiny command line app / Maven archetype which works like how I thought this all should have in the first place. The bootstrap app lets you launch your servlet container of choice (Jetty, Tomcat, GlassFish) by just passing it the path to the WAR and your port.

Using Maven, you can create and package your own instance of this simple app:

mvn archetype:generate \     -DarchetypeGroupId=org.duelengine \     -DarchetypeArtifactId=war-bootstrap-archetype \     -DarchetypeVersion=0.2.1 

Then you launch it like this:

java -jar bootstrap.jar -war myapp.war -p 8080 -c /myapp --jetty 

Here's the source for the utility and the archetype: https://bitbucket.org/mckamey/war-bootstrap