I have an example project here that uses Jetty to deploy a local server.
I use the mvn package exec:java command to run a local server, and it works fine. It loads HTML files, as well as content from servlets. Here are the pertinent files:
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>io.happycoding</groupId>
<artifactId>app-engine-hello-world</artifactId>
<version>1</version>
<properties>
<!-- App Engine currently supports Java 11 -->
<maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<jetty.version>9.4.35.v20201120</jetty.version>
<!-- Project-specific properties -->
<exec.mainClass>io.happycoding.ServerMain</exec.mainClass>
<googleCloudProjectId>YOUR_PROJECT_ID_HERE</googleCloudProjectId>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Java Servlets API -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>4.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Jetty -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
<version>${jetty.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-annotations</artifactId>
<version>${jetty.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<!-- Copy static resources like html files into the output jar file. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-web-resources</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals><goal>copy-resources</goal></goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>
${project.build.directory}/classes/META-INF/resources
</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource><directory>./src/main/webapp</directory></resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- Package everything into a single executable jar file. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals><goal>shade</goal></goals>
<configuration>
<createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
<transformers>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
<mainClass>${exec.mainClass}</mainClass>
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- App Engine plugin for deploying to the live site. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>com.google.cloud.tools</groupId>
<artifactId>appengine-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0</version>
<configuration>
<projectId>${googleCloudProjectId}</projectId>
<version>1</version>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
ServerMain.java
package io.happycoding;
import java.net.URL;
import org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationConfiguration;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Handler;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.DefaultHandler;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.DefaultServlet;
import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.Configuration;
import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext;
import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebInfConfiguration;
/**
* Starts up the server, including a DefaultServlet that handles static files,
* and any servlet classes annotated with the @WebServlet annotation.
*/
public class ServerMain {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// Create a server that listens on port 8080.
Server server = new Server(8080);
WebAppContext webAppContext = new WebAppContext();
server.setHandler(webAppContext);
// Load static content from inside the jar file.
URL webAppDir =
ServerMain.class.getClassLoader().getResource("META-INF/resources");
webAppContext.setResourceBase(webAppDir.toURI().toString());
// Enable annotations so the server sees classes annotated with @WebServlet.
webAppContext.setConfigurations(new Configuration[]{
new AnnotationConfiguration(),
new WebInfConfiguration(),
});
// Look for annotations in the classes directory (dev server) and in the
// jar file (live server)
webAppContext.setAttribute(
"org.eclipse.jetty.server.webapp.ContainerIncludeJarPattern",
".*/target/classes/|.*\\.jar");
// Handle static resources, e.g. html files.
webAppContext.addServlet(DefaultServlet.class, "/");
// Start the server! 🚀
server.start();
System.out.println("Server started!");
// Keep the main thread alive while the server is running.
server.join();
}
}
HelloWorldServlet.java
package io.happycoding.servlets;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
@WebServlet("/hello")
public class HelloWorldServlet extends HttpServlet {
@Override
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html;");
response.getWriter().println("<h1>Hello world!</h1>");
}
}
Again, this works fine... as long as I'm using Jetty 9.
But if I update my pom.xml file to set my jetty.version to 11.0.0, then suddenly I get a 404 for my servlet URL. I don't see any errors in the console.
What do I need to change about my code to get servlets to work again in Jetty 11?
(I'm asking because I got a bunch of dependabot updates to various student projects that all stopped working, and I'm trying to untangle them with the least friction possible.)
javaxservlet? You havejavax.servlet-apiin your dependencies for thejavaxclasses, but maybe Jetty is looking for ajakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletservlet? Again, it's just a guess. Also, have you tried using Jetty 10 to see if the code still works? (Jetty 10 uses servlet version 4.0) – Outrigger