How to run jetty 7+ with specified war with groovy/gradle?

Question

I want to run Jetty 7+ with gradle build, but unlucky looks like there is no way to do this with jettyRun. So probably simplest idea to achieve what I want would be to use c

Answer 1

Ok, I found out how to run it using jetty directly from repository:

jettyVersion = "8.1.0.RC0"

configurations {
    jetty8
}

dependencies {
    jetty8 "org.mortbay.jetty:jetty-runner:$jettyVersion"
}

task runJetty8(type: JavaExec) {
    main = "org.mortbay.jetty.runner.Runner"
    args = [war.archivePath]
    classpath configurations.jetty8
}