Jetty/Howto/Configure Jetty

Introduction

Configuring jetty consists of building a network of connectors and handlers and providing their individual configurations. It is a combination of

• HTTP server configuration (ports, thread pools, buffers, etc.)
• Web container configuration (webapps deployment, security realms, JNDI etc.)
• Web application (init parameters, non standard options, etc.)

See Jetty Architecture for a graphical representation of the interactions among connectors and handlers.

Configuring Jetty

Since Jetty components are simply Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs), you can accomplish this assembly and configuration of Jetty by a variety of techniques:

#In code

#Using Jetty XML

#Embedding Jetty

#Using the Jetty Maven Plugin

#Using Your Favorite Dependency Injection Framework: Spring, XBean

#Using Jetty WebApp and Context Deployers

In Code

See the examples in the Jetty 7 Latest Source XRef.

Using Jetty XML

Jetty XML offers XML equivalents to code. It is based on Java's Reflection API. Classes in the java.lang.reflect represent Java methods and classes, such that you can instantiate objects and invoke their methods based on their names and argument types. Behind the scenes, Jetty's XML config parser translates the XML elements and attributes into Reflection calls.