Jetty 8 web sockets

Question

I\'ve downloaded the latest Jetty 8 Hightide, but cannot get WebSockets to work. I unzip the distribution, put my .war file in the webapps folder and start:

Answer 1

I experienced the same using jetty-maven-plugin and version 8.0.3.v20111011. However the solution was simple. Just include the jetty-websocket as a compiled scope dependency (i.e. don't declared scope).

Relevant sections of pom.xml:

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    UTF-8
    8.0.3.v20111011

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



    
        org.eclipse.jetty
        jetty-websocket
        ${jetty.version}
    
    ...