Simple maven web application deployed on jetty server

Required:

• jdk
• maven

Use maven to generate simple web application:
 

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId={project-packaging} -DartifactId={project-name} -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT

Genereted project open in your IDE. Now you can view structure of generated web application. 

Using maven you can compile, run test or build you application:

mvn compile

mvn test

mvn install

After a successful build, maven generate target folder. You will find there WAR 

with name of you application(appName.war). If you will look closer to pom.xml file you will 

find out that the packaging type was set there:

 ...

  <artifactId>appName</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> 

 ...

To run generated project on jetty server at first you have to edit you pom.xml file 

and add jetty plugin declaration:

...

  <build>
      <plugins>
      <plugin>
          <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>6.1.10</version>
      </plugin>
      </plugins>

  </build> 

... 

Now using command

   mvn jetty:run

you can start jetty server with generated WAR file.

Open your browser and  under address 

   http://localhost:8080/appName/

you can see page of your running application. 

Important!!!

For windows enviroment make sure that firewall does not interfere 

Jetty server to execute on port 8080.