How To Use Maven Jetty Plugin

You can run your web applications on an embedded web container. Now I will show you how to use Jetty. 

But first a little bit about Jetty. It's a web container like Apache Tomcat. If you google Jetty, you will see Jetty on Codehaus and Eclipse. Jetty was a long time Codehaus project, but later it was moved to Eclipse Foundation. 

Which version should you use depends on your Java SE and Java EE version. Let's see a documentation. There's "What version do I use?" and there's version 9, 8, 7. Version 9 requires Java SE 7 and implements Java EE 6. 

To use Jetty 9 in your project add this plugin to your pom.xml file:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>9.1.0.v20131115</version>
  </plugin>

To use Jetty 8 go to Codehaus, there's documentation and use this plugin instead:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>8.1.14.v20131031</version>
</plugin>

To run Jetty server, run your Maven application with goal:

jetty:run

To stop Jetty server click on button Terminate in Eclipse.

You can also stop Jetty server using goal jetty:stop, but you have to configure it first:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>9.1.0.v20131115</version>
  <configuration>
    <stopPort>9966</stopPort>
    <stopKey>foo</stopKey>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

And then if I run goal jetty:run, I can use goal jetty:stop to stop this Jetty instance.

There are lot's of configuration options, see documentation.