Possible to run two webapps at once when developing with Maven/Eclipse?

Question

Here\'s the problem: we build webapps for clients. We also have an \"admin\" webapp that modifies some client data structures. Because of the nature of the data, both webapp

Answer 1

Yes, you can :) It's done by identifying one WAR module as the primary, copying all the other WARs into the primary's target dir, making a jetty.xml and telling Maven Jetty Plugin to use the jetty.xml. Here's how to copy the other WARs using Maven dependency plugin:

org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-dependency-plugin

    
        copy
        package
        
            copy
        
        
            
                
                    com.foo
                    bar
                    ${project.version}
                    war
                    true
                    target/
                
            
        
    

You'll need to have the com.foo:bar dependency defined in the POM as well. Here's the contents of jetty.xml:

    
        
            
                
                    
                        
                            
                                
                                    
                                
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    



    /foo
    
        target/bar-${project.version}.war
    

And here's how to tell Maven Jetty plugin to use the new jetty.xml:

org.mortbay.jetty
jetty-maven-plugin
${jetty.version}

    ${basedir}/jetty.xml

Now kick off jetty:run-war goal from Eclipse and you should see all WARs deploying in one Maven Jetty plugin instance. I run this from command line and it works there, YMMV with Eclipse.