Question

I set up a new webapp Maven project and wanted to test it with Jetty’s Maven plugin.
So I issued the console command: mvn jetty:run

After defining the pluginGroup in Maven’s settings file I ran once again the command.
Unfortunately, it failed because I was using one of the below mentioned versions of the plugin:

• maven-jetty-plugin
• jetty-maven-plugin

Why are there 2 Maven based plugins for achieving the same thing – running Jetty? Why do they have to bring so much confusion?

Or be so kind as to explain me the differences between them.

Answer 1

With Jetty7 this plugin was renamed to jetty-maven-plugin to better conform to maven2 convention. The Jetty 7 version of the plugin has also undergone substantial changes in configuration. For more information, see the Jetty 7 Maven Plugin feature guide.

See the docs here