Using JBoss-Jetty - Feedback

[seffenberg]

After banging my head against the wall I found a workaround. Don't know if it is the real thing (tm), but it works and I haven't found anything better on the web:

- determine which server you are using, which is "default" by default; the server directory is $JBOSS_HOME/server/default, e.g. C:\jboss-3.0.2\server\default
- find the file org.mortbay.jetty.jar
- modify org/mortbay/jetty/servlet/webdefault.xml:

set "nonContextServlets" to "true" in the
servlet section, e.g.


<servlet-name>Invoker</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Invoker</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>verbose</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>nonContextServlets</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>dynamicParam</param-name>
<param-value>anyValue</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>


- pack the whole thing back together into org.mortbay.jetty.jar and overwrite the existing file

- restart jboss




Regarding

http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch11.html#howto-jetty

I have some comments

(1) Section "Start the JBoss-Jetty server suite"
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the file names should be run.bat and run.sh; the command line argument "jetty" seems to be ignored, so the lines should read:

(windows)

run.bat

(unix)

./run.sh


(2) Section "Start the JBoss-Jetty server suite"
------------------------------------------------

the urls given in the document did not work on my set:

http://localhost:8080/jboss/
http://localhost:8080/
http://localhost:8080/demo/

according to $JBOSS_HOME\docs\examples\jbossweb\FAQ this is the default behaviour.


(3) Configure your JBoss-Jetty installation
-------------------------------------------

the jetty configuration file org/mortbay/jetty/servlet/webdefault.xml, part of org.mortbay.jetty.jar is worth mentioning



(4) JBoss-Jetty troubleshooting tips
------------------------------------

this is a post I made in the jsp forum, but it might be worth to be repeated in the jboss/jetty document as well:


Workaround for error message "HTTP ERROR 503 Dynamic servlet XXX not loaded from context"


- determine which server you are using, which is "default" by default; the server directory is $JBOSS_HOME/server/default, e.g. C:\jboss-3.0.2\server\default
- find the file org.mortbay.jetty.jar
- modify org/mortbay/jetty/servlet/webdefault.xml:

set "nonContextServlets" to "true" in the
servlet section, e.g.


<servlet-name>Invoker</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Invoker</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>verbose</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>nonContextServlets</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>dynamicParam</param-name>
<param-value>anyValue</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>


- pack the whole thing back together into org.mortbay.jetty.jar and overwrite the existing file

- restart jboss


(5) FAQ
-------

it would be nice to have the HTML document point to the FAQ ($JBOSS_HOME\docs\examples\jbossweb\FAQ) or have both synchronized.

[seffenberg]

sorry about the repeated message. The actual post starts with "Regarding

http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch11.html#howto-jetty"