Jetty Run War Using only command line

Question

Is it possible to use only the command line to Run jetty with only a specified war file and Context Path.

Something like :

Answer 1

It's possible, if you have the appropriate start config (jetty.xml) set up.

Out of the box, jetty doesn't ship with a jetty.xml that does that, but you could write one easily enough.

That would mean you'd either

1. Have a command line that was more like

   java -jar $jettyHome/start.jar -Dwar.location=myApp.war -DcontextPath=/myApp jetty-myapp.xml
   

   or

   java -jar $jettyHome/start.jar -Dwar.location=myApp.war -DcontextPath=/myApp etc/jetty.xml etc/jetty-plus.xml jetty-deploy-app.xml
   

2. Override the etc/jetty.xml yourself and put the info you want in there.

Jetty startup is pretty straight forward, so it's really just about producing an XML file that does what you want. That XML file can read values from system properties, so you can use your various "-D" options.