How to run jetty 7+ with specified war with groovy/gradle?

Question

I want to run Jetty 7+ with gradle build, but unlucky looks like there is no way to do this with jettyRun. So probably simplest idea to achieve what I want would be to use custom target:

task runJetty << {
  def server = new Server()
  // more code here
  server.start()
  server.join()   
}

Unlucky I just started with gradle and I don't know groovy either, so it's hard for me to create proper target. I was looking over the internet but I wasn't able to find any solution. Can anyone hit me with some sample groovy code which can run existing jar with jetty?

Adrianaadriane

possible duplicate of Is there any easy way to run jetty 8 from gradle (like with jettyRun)? – Michel

Answer 1

Ok, I found out how to run it using jetty directly from repository:

jettyVersion = "8.1.0.RC0"

configurations {
    jetty8
}

dependencies {
    jetty8 "org.mortbay.jetty:jetty-runner:$jettyVersion"
}

task runJetty8(type: JavaExec) {
    main = "org.mortbay.jetty.runner.Runner"
    args = [war.archivePath]
    classpath configurations.jetty8
}

Adrianaadriane

How can I create a task that uses Jetty 8, and mimics jettyRunWar which packages the war and deploys it to the server? – Inimical

How do u specify the context path? I tried --path contextPath. It doesn't work. I can see this in the logs: o.e.j.w.WebAppContext{/,null} – Calico

Answer 2

Here's a working version, using the jetty ant tasks. This finally enabled me the proper control with deamon=true.

configurations { jetty }
dependencies { jetty 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-ant:9.0.4.v20130625' }
task jetty(dependsOn: build) << {
    ant.taskdef(name: 'jettyRun', classname: 'org.eclipse.jetty.ant.JettyRunTask', classpath: configurations.jetty.asPath, loaderref: "jetty.loader")
    ant.typedef(name: "connector", classname: "org.eclipse.jetty.ant.types.Connector", classpath: configurations.jetty.asPath, loaderref: "jetty.loader")
    ant.jettyRun(daemon:true, stopPort: 8999, stopKey: "STOP") {
        webApp(war: THE_WAR_PRODUCING_TASK.archivePath, contextPath: '/context')
        connectors { connector(port: 9000) }
        systemProperties {
            systemProperty(name: 'environment.type', value: 'development')
        }
    }
}
task jettyStop << {
    ant.taskdef(name: 'jettyStop', classname: 'org.eclipse.jetty.ant.JettyStopTask', classpath: configurations.jetty.asPath)
    ant.jettyStop(stopPort: 8999, stopKey: "STOP")
}

Subzero

I don't see any IP address is given here. My main goal is to connect my web service via other devices in the same local area. – Climb

Answer 3

There is a jetty-eclipse-plugin that allows you to run newer versions of jetty https://github.com/Khoulaiz/gradle-jetty-eclipse-plugin

Jeu

Answer 4

jetty plugin supports jetty 6.1.25 at present

You can use something like this:

jettyRoot = '/path/to/your/jetty/root'
task runJetty7 << {
  description = "Runs jetty 7"
  ant.java(dir: jettyRoot, jar: jettyRoot + '/start.jar', failOnError: 'true', fork: 'true') {
    classpath {
      ...
    }
  }
}

Fabron

Yea, I know its possible to do it this way, but I don't like this line: "jettyRoot = '/path/to/your/jetty/root'". Is it possible to add jetty as runtime dependency and somehow get the path where gradle saved it (after fetching)? – Adrianaadriane

You could add jetty 7 as a dependency: configurations { jetty7 } dependencies { jetty7 "org.mortbay.jetty:jetty:+" } ext.jettyRoot = configurations.jetty7 – Fast