When I’m writing a Java servlet using Maven, I find it convenient to be able to run the Java servlet in a local servlet container for testing purposes. This is very easy to do using the Jetty Maven plugin.
To add the Jetty Maven plugin to your project, modify pom.xml as follows:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>9.2.0.M0</version>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
You can then run your project in Jetty using the following command:
mvn jetty:run
If you want to run the website from the compiled WAR rather than from the source code, then use the following configuration:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>9.2.0.M0</version>
<configuration>
<war>${basedir}/target/${project.build.finalName}.war</war>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
Then execute:
mvn jetty:run-war