How-to: run the web application using the Jetty-maven-plugin for development and testing

Overview

This example illustrates how to to use the Jetty-Maven-plugin for rapid development and testing. To run the application in Jetty invoke, open a command prompt, change into the the pineapple-web-application-war project directory and enter the Maven command:

        mvn jetty:run

The plugin will start the Jetty 7.1.x server with the application deployed with these parameters:

  • host = localhost
  • port = 8080

The application URL is: http://localhost:8080

Pineapple Home directory configuration

The Pineapple Home directory, which is defined thrugh the system property pineapple.home.dir will be set to the value of the pineapple.home.dir parameter in the web.xml whose default value is ${user.home}/.pineapple.