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Maven Archetypes for Web Applications

This page contains maven archetypes to help you quickly and easily get started on a web project that uses the jetty plugin. Each archetype allows you to generate a template for your project based on the included sample web application. (This supposes that maven 2.x is already installed in your system)

Getting and building the archetype locally:
Download the archetype source from the list below. Unzip and navigate to the root folder. Install the archetype locally with the command mvn install.

Creating a template for a web application:
Execute the following command to create the project template:

mvn archetype:create \
-DarchetypeGroupId=com.webtide \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=<artifactId> \
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0 \
-DgroupId=<my.groupid> \
-DartifactId=<my-artifactId>

<my.groupId> and <my-artifactId> pertains to the information about the new project you want to create. For the <artifactId>, refer to the list below.

Running the sample web application:
Execute the command mvn jetty:run. Point your browser to http://localhost:8080 *.

Available archetypes:

ActiveMQ	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses ActiveMQ. The sample webapp allows a user to type in and send a message which will then be added to a Message Log. Source: maven-archetype-ActiveMQ.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-ActiveMQ Version: 5.0.0
DOJO	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses DOJO. The sample webapp displays "Hello World!" that the user may fade out or fade in. Source: maven-archetype-DOJO.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-DOJO Version: 1.0.2
cometd	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses cometd using jetty's ContinuationCometdServlet. The sample webapp echoes messages being sent to the server back to the client. Source: maven-archetype-cometd.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-cometd Version: cometd-api: 0.9.20071211, cometd-bayeux: 6.1.7, jetty: 6.1.7
DWR	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses DWR. The sample webapp allows the user to enter his name to display a customized "Hello World" greeting. Source: maven-archetype-DWR.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-DWR Version: 2.0.2
JSF	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses JSF. The sample webapp allows the user to enter his name to display a customized "Hello" greeting. Source: maven-archetype-JSF.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-JSF Version: 1.2_07
SiteMesh	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses SiteMesh. The sample webapp displays "Hello world!" and the current date. Source: maven-archetype-SiteMesh.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-SiteMesh Version: 2.3
Spring	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses Spring. The sample webapp displays "Hello world!". Source: maven-archetype-Spring.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-Spring Version: 2.5
Spring JPA	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses Spring and Hibernate JPA. The sample webapp displays "Hello world!" and allows you to modify a list of people's names and professions. The webapp requires a database to be running. The sample uses HSQL. The sample webapp is capable of running the database by typing: mvn install. Then, in another window, run the webapp by using the command: mvn jetty:run. To try the sample webapp, point your browser to http://localhost:8080. Source: maven-archetype-SpringJpa.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-SpringJpa Version: spring-2.5, hibernate-3.2.4.sp1 Contributed by: Ermanno Franco, copyright 2006
Struts	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses Struts. The sample webapp allows the user to enter his name to display a customized "Hello" greeting. Source: maven-archetype-Struts.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-Struts Version: struts2-2.0.11, struts-taglib-1.3.9
Tapestry	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses Tapestry. The sample webapp displays "Hello world!" and the current date. * To view the sample webapp, point your browser to http://localhost:8080/app. Source: maven-archetype-Tapestry.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-Tapestry Version: 4.1.3 For version 5.0.5, you can refer to this archetype.
WebWork	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses WebWork. The sample webapp allows the user to enter his name to display a customized "Hello" greeting. Source: maven-archetype-WebWork.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-WebWork Version: 2.2.6
Wicket	This archetype allows you to generate a template for a web application that uses Wicket. The sample webapp displays its own version of "Hello World!". Source: maven-archetype-Wicket.zip Artifact ID: maven-archetype-Wicket Version: 1.2.6

News & Blogs

Dojo Toolkit Maven Repository

Using maven to build your project is a fantastic for managing your dependencies and avoiding having dependencies (and their dependencies) checked into your own svn. The only fly in the ointment, is projects that don't publish maven artifacts, and the Ajax dojo toolkit has been one of these. Until now that is!

jetty-test-servers
Jan and I have run across some annoying problems with test cases and test scoping within jetty recently and it has lead to some discussion on an idea that I have been kicking around for a while. The problem was that we have some useful test cases which are in the form of jetty server configurations in the jetty module and maybe a couple of other module, but since they are test source they are not readily available for consumption in other modules.

Jetty Deployed Around the World

The nice people at PaperCut were kind enough to talk about their usage of Jetty... and it isn't minor usage. 10's of thousands of servers in 60 countries. From small user populations to hundreds of thousands...

See their full posting here!

JSR-315 Needs You II

Rajiv, the spec lead on JSR-315 has posted his views on the issue of flexible automatic configuration of web applications. Despite vigorous arguments for flexibility (or perhaps because of them), I've not been able to make the case with those opposed to selective enabling of auto configuration....

JavaOne
Hope to see you there. Webtide has a booth #1224-4!

Jetty Runner
If you're looking for a fast and easy way to run your webapp, without needing to install and administer a Jetty distro, then look no further, the Jetty Runner is here! The idea of the Jetty Runner is extremely simple - run a webapp from the command line using a single jar and as much default configuration as possible:

  java -jar jetty-runner.jar my.war

Voila! Jetty will start on port 8080 and deploy the my.war webapp.