Configuring Jetty JSP support in embedded mode in Maven project

Question

I can visit .html pages with Jetty, but when I visit a .jsp page I get:

0 13:21:13 / [INFO] No JSP support. Check that JSP jars are in lib/jsp and th

Answer 1

After reading this stackoverflow page (nice job) as well as http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Howto/Configure_JSP, I finally got this to work as well. Since my config is slightly different, I thought I'd contribute back. I have an embedded Jetty 8 installation without the 'javac' compiler, and I got it to work by using the eclipse compiler and setting the system property before creating the server, like this:

System.setProperty("org.apache.jasper.compiler.disablejsr199", "true");
Server server = new Server();

And using the following maven configuration:

  org.apache.geronimo.specs
  geronimo-servlet_3.0_spec
  1.0


  org.eclipse.jetty.orbit
  javax.el
  2.2.0.v201108011116


  org.eclipse.jetty.orbit
  javax.servlet.jsp
  2.2.0.v201112011158


  org.eclipse.jetty.orbit
  javax.servlet.jsp.jstl
  1.2.0.v201105211821


  org.eclipse.jetty.orbit
  org.apache.jasper.glassfish
  2.2.2.v201112011158


  org.eclipse.jetty.orbit
  org.apache.taglibs.standard.glassfish
  1.2.0.v201112081803


  org.eclipse.jetty.orbit
  org.eclipse.jdt.core
  3.7.1