I have a web app which in production I run on Tomcat. It uses the MySQL connector, however it is not bundled up with the war, rather it is included under Tomcat\'s common lib di
Additinally to previous answer: you have to add to your jetty plugin in maven config dependency:
org.mortbay.jetty
jetty-maven-plugin
${jetty.version}
blah-blah-blah
9966
/
${basedir}/src/jetty-env.xml
postgresql
postgresql
8.4-701.jdbc4
And then you can use provided scope at main project dependencies. I did it right now, and it works. Thank you for your question (and Nishant too)