Alternatives to the Gradle Gretty Plugin

Question

I’m trying to upgrade some old code that used the Jetty plugin in Gradle. I would like to upgrade the Gradle version beyond Gradle v3.5, but Gradle v4.0 and above has the Jetty plugin removed. Unfortunately, we are now required to use Gretty.

I’m using IntelliJ. My problems with the newer Gretty plugin are:

• JVM Args and System properties specified on the commandline have to be manually put into the Gretty configuration.

• At least in IntelliJ, I could do out of the box debugging with the Jetty plugin, but need to run two executions including the app and the Remote, and use a different Gradle task for debugging (e.g. jettyRunDebug) with Gretty.

  What are the alternatives to Gretty? Anything that can substitute for the old Jetty plugin.

Answer 1

How about just skipping the Gretty plugin entirely and just using Unit testing?

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29759263/775715