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techsjs2012
techsjs2012

Reputation: 1737

Trying to move to Jetty from Tomcat for testing on workstation, tomcat vs jetty

I been programming Spring/Web projects for sometime using eclipse and tomcat but now that I am getting into Maven I am also thinking about using jetty for my workstation testing.

I made a sample web app and if I run it on tomcat from eclipse I goto http://localhost:8080/TestJetty/ but if I do a mvn jetty:run I have to access it from http://localhost:8080/

Why is that?

Also can I setup eclipse to run jetty? whats the pros and cons of both

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1169

Answers (1)

Biju Kunjummen
Biju Kunjummen

Reputation: 49915

Normally with "jetty:run" goal of maven jetty plugin the context path is /, unless it is overridden with a contextPath configuration entry:

       <plugin>
            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
            <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>Your version..</version>
            <configuration>
                <webApp>
                    <contextPath>/mycontextpath</contextPath>
                </webApp>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

From within Eclipse probably it is your project name that is being used as the context path.

Regarding pros and cons, it simply is your level of comfort, I prefer command line and so would normally run it outside of eclipse using "mvn jetty:run"

Upvotes: 1

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