Executable war file that starts jetty without maven

Question

I\'m trying to make an \"executable\" war file (java -jar myWarFile.war) that will start up a Jetty webserver that hosts the webapp contained in the WAR file I

Answer 1

Hudson solves this exact problem using the Winstone servlet container, which supports this use case directly. http://winstone.sourceforge.net/#embedding

Perhaps this would work for you?