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

Here's a working version, using the jetty ant tasks. This finally enabled me the proper control with deamon=true.

configurations { jetty }
dependencies { jetty 'org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-ant:9.0.4.v20130625' }
task jetty(dependsOn: build) << {
    ant.taskdef(name: 'jettyRun', classname: 'org.eclipse.jetty.ant.JettyRunTask', classpath: configurations.jetty.asPath, loaderref: "jetty.loader")
    ant.typedef(name: "connector", classname: "org.eclipse.jetty.ant.types.Connector", classpath: configurations.jetty.asPath, loaderref: "jetty.loader")
    ant.jettyRun(daemon:true, stopPort: 8999, stopKey: "STOP") {
        webApp(war: THE_WAR_PRODUCING_TASK.archivePath, contextPath: '/context')
        connectors { connector(port: 9000) }
        systemProperties {
            systemProperty(name: 'environment.type', value: 'development')
        }
    }
}
task jettyStop << {
    ant.taskdef(name: 'jettyStop', classname: 'org.eclipse.jetty.ant.JettyStopTask', classpath: configurations.jetty.asPath)
    ant.jettyStop(stopPort: 8999, stopKey: "STOP")
}