Setting "root" context path with Maven Jetty plugin

Question

I have the following Maven code snippet

<plugin>   <!-- http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Maven+Jetty+Plugin -->   <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>   <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>   <version>6.1.16</version>   <configuration>     <contextPath>/thomas</contextPath>     <stopPort>9966</stopPort>     <stopKey>foo</stopKey>   </configuration> </plugin> 

I want to set context path to "/" but the Jetty plugin doesn't respect it, the context falls back to using the folder (or maybe the module) name as the context path. If I set a context path with a name, for example:

 <contextPath>/thomas</contextPath> 

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

FWIW this is what you need for jetty 8

<plugin>  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>  <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>  <version>8.1.7.v20120910</version>  <configuration>           <webApp>     <contextPath>/</contextPath>   </webApp>  </configuration> </plugin>