Adding classpath to jetty running in maven integration-test

Question

I'm trying to set up integration tests for a Maven project that produces a war file. (As seen here http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Maven+Jetty+Plugin/.) However I the war file requires a bunch of .properties files on the classpath, that I don't want to bundle in the war.

Is there a way (preferably through plugin configuration) to add a folder to the classpath used by jetty?

I Googled this and found http://markmail.org/message/awtqrgxxttra3uxx but this, as far as I can tell, does not actually work at all. The .properties files are not found.

Answer 1

This should be possible using the webAppConfig configuration element (sample below taken from this thread):

<webAppConfig>
  <contextPath>/nportal</contextPath>
  <!-- All I want to do here is add in the /etc/jetty/classes for runtime files. For some reason I have to also add back in the /target/classes directory -->
  <extraClasspath>${basedir}/target/classes/;${basedir}/etc/jetty/classes/</extraClasspath>
</webAppConfig> 

Answer 2

If you find that the above solution doesn't work for you, consider including the test classpath into your Jetty configuration.

<configuration>
   <useTestClasspath>true</useTestClasspath>
   ...
</configuration>

This will then allow you to place all manner of resources/classes on the test classpath and have them visible to the Jetty server without them creeping into the production code.