Run web application with Maven Jetty Plugin

In this tutorial, I will introduce with all of you about a Maven plugin, which can help us run a web application in Jetty with some simple configurations. This is Maven Jetty Plugin.

First of all, we need a web project using Maven for example.

I use Spring Tool Suite to create an example Maven project for this tutorial.

If you don’t know how to create a web project in Spring Tool Suite IDE, you can look at this tutorial.

Our project structure as below:

Now, I will add Maven Jetty Plugin into our project.

<plugin>
	<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
	<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>9.3.0.v20150612</version>
</plugin>

<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>

<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>

</plugin>

Currently, the latest version of Jetty is 9.3.0.v20150612. This is also latest version of Maven Jetty Plugin! Look at version, we can know no update for Jetty for a long time :).

OK, now we can run our application.

Let right-click on the project or the pom.xml file, then choose Run As and select Maven build…

The window Run Configurations will appear, let enter clean jetty:run into field Goals as below:

After that press Run button, Maven will build our project and run it on Jetty server with default port is 8080, root context path will be “/”, this mean you only need run http://localhost:8080 then you can see the web page.

Result:

To change the root context path of our web application, you can add more configuration for Maven Jetty Plugin in the pom.xml file as below:

<plugin>
	<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
	<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>9.3.0.v20150612</version>
	<configuration>
		<webApp>
			<contextPath>/springmvc</contextPath>
		</webApp>  
	</configuration>
</plugin>

<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>

<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<contextPath>/springmvc</contextPath>

</webApp>

</configuration>

</plugin>

Run again, result as below:

If you want to change the port number, you also can add more configuration for Maven Jetty Plugin as below:

<plugin>
	<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
	<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>9.3.0.v20150612</version>
	<configuration>
		<scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
		<webApp>
			<contextPath>/springmvc</contextPath>
		</webApp>  
		<httpConnector>
			<port>8585</port>
		</httpConnector>
	</configuration>
</plugin>