Spring 3.1 WebApplicationInitializer & Embedded Jetty 8 AnnotationConfiguration

Question

I\'m trying to create a simple webapp without any XML configuration using Spring 3.1 and an embedded Jetty 8 server.

However, I\'m struggling to get Jetty to recogni

Answer 1

Based on my testing and this thread http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?127152-WebApplicationInitializer-not-loaded-with-embedded-Jetty I don't think it works at the moment. If you look in AnnotationConfiguration.configure:

   parseContainerPath(context, parser);
   // snip comment
   parseWebInfClasses(context, parser);
   parseWebInfLib (context, parser);

it seems coupled to a war-like deployment rather than embedded.

Here is an example using Spring MVC and embedded Jetty that might be more useful:

http://www.jamesward.com/2012/08/13/containerless-spring-mvc

It creates the Spring servlet directly rather then relying on annotations.