Webapp requiring additional jars (eg webservices-rt.jar) works in jetty 6 but not 7

Question

I have a really simple web service which works fine in jetty 6:

java -Djetty.class.path=/path/to/webservices-rt.jar -jar start.jar

but the same commandline for jetty 7 fails with a ClassNotFoundException for WSServlet. I also tried adding the jar to lib/ext but that didn't work either.

I've tried an example "hello world" app (also requiring webservices-rt.jar) and it exhibits the same behaviour.

There doesn't seem to be much documentation on v7 yet, has anyone else come across this and found a solution?

Answer 1

Oops, found the answer. Although it's not mentioned in the documentation for porting/upgrading to jetty 7, there is a minor mention here that the syntax has changed and the new commandline should be:

java -jar start.jar lib=/path/to

(Note it's the parent path of the jar file above)