maven jetty plug in mvn:jetty ServletContext.getRealPath("") and ServletRequest.getRealPath("") to point to target _instead_ of source folders?

Question

SUMMARY: The goal is to find the path to the WEB-INF folder in the target folder for maven-jetty-plugin that is compatible with other servers as well. The ServletContext.getRealPath("") works beautifully for, e.g., Tomcat, or mvn jetty:run-war. Thank you

Misha

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Dear All:

This is related to http://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-1760

It can be easily tested with the following commands:

mvn archetype:generate -B -DarchetypeGroupId=org.appfuse.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=appfuse-light-struts-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=2.1.0-M1 -DgroupId=com.mycompany -DartifactId=myproject
cd myproject
patch -p0 < diff
cd myproject
mvn clean install -DskipTests && mvn jetty:run

Please find the diff file here: http://old.nabble.com/file/p29815681/diff

Now, navigate to http://localhost:8080/ in a browser and this will point to !!! /home/misha/workspace/myproject/src/main/resources

Should this not, instead, point to?

./target/classes

or

./target/myproject-2.1.0-M1/WEB-INF/classes

Is it possible to modify this behavior?

Thank you so much

Yours

Misha Koshelev

Answer 1

Dear All:

It seems one work around, per Jan Bartel's very helpful post on the user at jetty dot codehaus dot org mailing list, is to use

mvn jetty:run-exploded

I believe one of the disadvantages of this method is the extra time that it will take to first assemble a WAR and then to run it.

Thank you Misha

p.s. Reference to Jan Bartel's post: http://markmail.org/message/445huiwr6vljblxn