Create a Jetty Run Main Class

This method lets you create a class in your project that runs your application. This has a number of benefits

  • Runs directly from compile output directory - so no waiting for copying files
  • Works in all IDE's exactly the same
  • Debugging/Profiling/Running work perfectly

This assumes you are running with Maven.

To make this work

  1. Add a dependency on Jetty to your POM at provided scope. Use the jetty-server-dependencies and jetty-provided-apis artifacts
  2. Turn off J2EE deployment in module properties
  3. Add a class like the following to your src/test/resources
public class RunTapestryApp {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		Server server = new Server();

		Connector connector = new SelectChannelConnector();
		connector.setPort(Integer.getInteger("jetty.port", 8080));
		server.setConnectors(new Connector[]{connector});

		String jetty_home = System.getProperty("jetty.home", "./");

		WebAppContext webapp = new WebAppContext();
		webapp.setContextPath("/");
		webapp.setWar(jetty_home + "src/main/webapp");
		webapp.setDefaultsDescriptor(jetty_home + "src/test/resources/webdefault.xml");

		// Remove slf4j from list of classes not exposed to webapp
		webapp.setServerClasses(new String[] {"-org.mortbay.jetty.plus.jaas.", "org.mortbay.jetty."});

		server.setHandler(webapp);

		server.start();
		server.join();
	}
}

This might be a bad idea if you want to use Tapestry-test since it depends on Jetty 5 at present.

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