Boosting web application development using (embedded) Jetty

Intro

Setting up tomcat to run from Eclipse is quite cumbersome (see Boosting web application development - running Tomcat from Eclipse). There is an easier way.

Jetty embedded server

With only three lines of code and two maven dependencies you can start a webserver running from Eclipse.

public class JettyStarter {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		init();
	}

	private static void init() throws Exception {

		WebAppContext webAppContext = new WebAppContext("src/main/webapp", "/avr");

		Server server = new Server(8080);
		server.setHandler(webAppContext);
		server.start();
	}

}

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
  <version>6.1.5</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jsp-2.1</artifactId>
  <version>6.1.5</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Reference

See http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Embedding+Jetty

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