Executable war file that starts jetty without maven

Question

I\'m trying to make an \"executable\" war file (java -jar myWarFile.war) that will start up a Jetty webserver that hosts the webapp contained in the WAR file I

Answer 1

I have done a similar thing before but are you launchign the app as "java -jar xxx.war" ?. You have only 2 jars and it is not going to be enough I think. Also try using Jetty 7.0.0M1 (which is the latest version). When I added jetty-server and jetty-webapp as two dependencies (they are from org.eclipse.jetty) I get the following jar's in the lib directory. FYI the org.mortbay.jetty.Handler was in the jetty-server*.jar.

• jetty-continuation-7.0.0.M1.jar
• jetty-http-7.0.0.M1.jar
• jetty-io-7.0.0.M1.jar
• jetty-security-7.0.0.M1.jar
• jetty-server-7.0.0.M1.jar
• jetty-servlet-7.0.0.M1.jar
• jetty-util-7.0.0.M1.jar
• jetty-webapp-7.0.0.M1.jar
• jetty-xml-7.0.0.M1.jar

Answer 2

• Putting .jars inside a .war file root does nothing
• Putting .jars inside WEB-INF/lib doesn't help the JVM find the Jetty files to even begin launching your .war. It's "too late" to put them there.
• Putting .jars in the manifest Class-Path only works for external .jar files, not those contained in the .jar

So what to do?

• Use a build script to simply merge all the .jar files you need into the .war file. This takes a little extra work. It's also a bit ugly in that the compiled code is part of the servable files in the .war
• Add dependent .jars to the JVM's classpath with "java -cp jetty.jar:... ..." Works though this kind of defeats the purpose of one stand-alone .war

Answer 3

This is my example ANT extract. The idea is to unpackage the Jetty dependencies and then include them locally just like a normal JAR file:

<!-- Hack: Java doesn't support jars within jars/wars -->
<unjar src="${lib.dir}/container/jetty.jar" dest="${build.dir}/unjar"/>
<unjar src="${lib.dir}/container/jetty-util.jar" dest="${build.dir}/unjar"/>
<unjar src="${lib.dir}/container/servlet-api.jar" dest="${build.dir}/unjar"/>
<unjar src="${lib.dir}/container/jsp-api.jar" dest="${build.dir}/unjar"/>

<!-- Build war file as normal, just including the compiled and unjar'ed files -->
<war destfile="${war.file}" webxml="${config.dir}/web.xml">
    <fileset dir="${build.dir}/classes"/>
    <fileset dir="${build.dir}/unjar"/>
    <fileset dir="${resources.dir}" excludes="*.swp"/>
    <lib dir="${lib.dir}/runtime"/>
    <manifest>
        <attribute name="Main-Class" value="Start"/>
    </manifest>
</war>

Note:

The WEB-INF/lib direcory is for the web applications dependencies. In this case we're packaging the WAR file so that it works like the normal Jetty JAR file on startup

Answer 4

We have figured this out by using jetty-console-maven-plugin.

Whenever you run mvn package it creates another war that can be used with java -jar whateverpackage-runnable.war

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.simplericity.jettyconsole</groupId>
            <artifactId>jetty-console-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.45</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>createconsole</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>

            <configuration>
                <additionalDependencies>
                    <additionalDependency>
                        <artifactId>jetty-console-requestlog-plugin</artifactId>
                    </additionalDependency>
                    <additionalDependency>
                        <artifactId>jetty-console-gzip-plugin</artifactId>
                    </additionalDependency>
                    <additionalDependency>
                        <artifactId>jetty-console-ajp-plugin</artifactId>
                    </additionalDependency>
                    <additionalDependency>
                        <artifactId>jetty-console-startstop-plugin</artifactId>
                    </additionalDependency>
                </additionalDependencies>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

It also generates the init.d scripts and everything for you!

Answer 5

Even though this is kind of old another alternative with Jetty 8 is to simply include the Jetty jars as dependencies in your pom and add the following in your pom (versus an ant script that unpackages the war and repackages it):

            <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.4</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>shade</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <createDependencyReducedPom>true</createDependencyReducedPom>
                        <transformers>
                            <transformer
                                implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                                <mainClass>JettyStandaloneMain</mainClass>
                            </transformer>
                        </transformers>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
        <!-- The main class needs to be in the root of the war in order to be 
            runnable -->
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>move-main-class</id>
                    <phase>compile</phase>
                    <configuration>
                        <tasks>
                            <move todir="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}">
                                <fileset dir="${project.build.directory}/classes/">
                                    <include name="JettyStandaloneMain.class" />
                                </fileset>
                            </move>
                        </tasks>
                    </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>run</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

Answer 6

This is an adaptation for Maven of @RobHruska's answer. It just copies the files of the main class and merges the Jetty JAR files into the WAR file, nothing new, just to simplify your life if you are new -like me- to Maven:

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>move-main-class</id>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <configuration>
                <tasks>
                    <copy todir="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}">
                        <fileset dir="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/WEB-INF/classes/">
                            <include name="main/*.class" />
                        </fileset>
                    </copy>

                    <unjar dest="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}">
                        <!-- you'll have to locate these jars or appropriate versions; note that these include JSP support -->
                        <!-- you might find some of them in the downloaded Jetty .tgz -->
                        <fileset dir="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/WEB-INF/lib/">
                            <include name="ant-1.6.5.jar"/>
                            <!--<include name="core-3.1.1.jar"/>-->
                            <include name="jetty*"/>
                            <include name="servlet-api*"/>
                        </fileset>

                        <patternset><!-- to exclude some of the stuff we don't really need -->
                            <exclude name="META-INF/**/*"/>
                            <exclude name="images/**/*"/>
                            <exclude name=".options"/>
                            <exclude name="about.html"/>
                            <exclude name="jdtCompilerAdapter.jar"/>
                            <exclude name="plugin*"/>
                        </patternset>
                    </unjar>
                </tasks>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
                <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin> 
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses>
        <archive>
            <manifest>
                <mainClass>main.Main</mainClass> 
            </manifest>
        </archive>
    </configuration>
</plugin>