Running web app in both Jetty and Tomcat

Question

I have a web app which in production I run on Tomcat. It uses the MySQL connector, however it is not bundled up with the war, rather it is included under Tomcat's common lib directory, so that I can access the data source through JNDI.

I would like to do something similar with Jetty (while developing), and more precisely Jetty + Maven. Is there a way for me to include the mysql-connector jar in the classpath when running Jetty through Maven (i.e. not have it bundled in the war file)?

Also I should note that I am using Maven for my build process and have the mysql-connector specified as "provided" scope.

Answer 1

Additinally to previous answer: you have to add to your jetty plugin in maven config dependency:

<plugin>
            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
            <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${jetty.version}</version>
            <configuration>
                <stopKey>blah-blah-blah</stopKey>
                <stopPort>9966</stopPort>
                <webAppConfig>
                    <contextPath>/</contextPath>
                </webAppConfig>
                <jettyEnvXml>${basedir}/src/jetty-env.xml</jettyEnvXml>
            </configuration>
            <dependencies>              
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>postgresql</groupId>
                    <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
                    <version>8.4-701.jdbc4</version>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
        </plugin>

And then you can use provided scope at main project dependencies. I did it right now, and it works. Thank you for your question (and Nishant too)