Spring application with embedded jetty can't find webdefault.xml if running from jar

Question

I have spring application which uses embedded Jetty instance.

project
   | src
      | controller
      | webapps
          | jsp
          | WEB-INF
                    


        

Answer 1

It seems that jetty's trying to parse the web.xml (descriptor) file, but thinks its in

.../...../...../webdefault.xml

or something like that.

You should explicitly set the web.xml path:

context.setDescriptor("WEB-INF/web.xml"); `

or, assuming that your jar really does include the aformentioned 'project' dir (which isn't standard jar intrernal layout):

context.setDescriptor("project/src/webapps/WEB-INF/web.xml");