Spring application with embedded jetty can't find webdefault.xml if running from jar

Question

I have spring application which uses embedded Jetty instance.

project
   | src
      | controller
      | webapps
          | jsp
          | WEB-INF
                    


        

Answer 1

From @Trein's post, setting the WAR_LOCATION is important. I have seen jetty failing to deploy the web app when this is missing.

Assuming that you are using Jetty to test your app, if you are using Maven POM below is how I test my web app

pom.xml

 
            org.springframework
            spring-test
            ${spring.version}
            test
        

        
            org.mortbay.jetty
            jetty-servlet-tester
            6.1.22
            test
        
        
            org.mortbay.jetty
            maven-jetty-plugin
            6.1.19
            test
        
    


    
        
            tomcat
 
        
                    
                        org.mortbay.jetty
                        maven-jetty-plugin
                        6.1.22
                        
                            10
                            foo
                            9999
                            /
                            src/main/webapp
                            
                                
                                    RESOURCE_PATH
                                    ${project.build.outputDirectory}
                                
                            
                            
                                
                                    9090
                                    60000
                                
                            
                        
                        
                            
                                test-compile
                                
                                    run
                                
                                
                                    0
                                    true
                                
                            
                            
                                stop-jetty
                                package
                                
                                    stop
                                
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        

To run the webapp you can either run mvn jetty:start or run mvn package. This starts the Jetty server on port 9090 and runs the tests (run your http based tests here) and shutdown the server/webapp. If you want to run as standalone webapp, use mvn jetty:start and use your webapp just like any webapp container.

This all assumes you are using Maven. The code above provided by @Trein does the same programatically and the one I provided is the maven configuration equivalent of the above.

Note: You shouldn't worry about webdefault.xml as the default is already packaged in the jetty jar file. You should use your own webdefault.xml only when you need to extend/alter the defaults. There is either something wrong with your Jetty jar (if its reporting this or something to do with your CLASSPATH settings)