How to control VM arguments for maven-jetty-plugin?

Question

How to set VM arguments for Jetty run from maven-jetty-plugin?

For example, I need to pass -Xmx arguments to Jetty run by the mvn jetty:run

Answer 1

On Linux/Unix

export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx256m" && mvn clean install jetty:run

will do the trick