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

Probably a little bit out-dated. However I recently encountered this problem in the context of embedding Jetty in an Eclipse OSGi application using the version of Jetty packaged with Eclipse (Jetty 8.x).

The way I sorted this out is the following :

1. Get the URL of the webdefault.xml relative to the org.eclipse.jetty.webapp bundle
2. Pass this URL to the context default descriptor

Bundle bundle = FrameworkUtil.getBundle(WebAppContext.class);
Enumeration urls = bundle.findEntries("/", "webdefault.xml", true);
String webdefaultURL = urls.nextElement().toExternalForm(); // Should check returned value 
mycontext.setDefaultsDescriptor(webdefaultURL);

Hope it helps

seb