Question

I would like to have a portable Jetty Server. The default jetty.home directory contains

    JettyHome
    │
    ├─etc
    │ ├─ jetty.xml
    │ ├─ jetty-logging.xml
    │ ├─ jetty-plus.xml
    │ └─ webdefault.xml
    ├─logs
    │
    ├─lib
    │  ├─ jetty-6.1.26.jar
    │  └─ other.jar
    ├─webapps
    │  └─MyWebApp.war 
    ├─ start.jar
    └─ start.ini

From the above, I would like to eliminate etc and lib directory and keep the following

    JettyHome
    │
    ├─logs
    ├─webapps
    │  └─MyWebApp.war 
    └─ start.jar

I packed all the lib folder jars into start.jar using OneJar along with start.ini. Is there any way to keep etc folder contents inside the jar so that I can simply run

java -Xmx640M -jar rw.jar 

instead of

java -Xmx640M -jar rw.jar etc/jetty.xml etc/jetty-annotations.xml etc/jetty-deploy.xml etc/jetty-logging.xml etc/jetty-webapps.xml 

So I can have a portable release and I never worry about changing configuration by someone in client place.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Your best bet is to embed jetty into your application.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Tutorial/Embedding_Jetty

With this you simply need to have the jetty jars in the classpath and you should be good to go. You can even slurp everything into the one jar like you want and have a Main class in the manifest that starts everything off.

The xml files are really just a thin layer of xml over java anyway. Take a look at some of the embedded examples here and that should clue you into the correct approach.

http://git.eclipse.org/c/jetty/org.eclipse.jetty.project.git/tree/examples/embedded/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/embedded