Hi Jan,

Thanks for your reply…

> On 9 Jan 2018, at 15:19, Jan Bartel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Robert,
> 
> You don't say what version of jetty you are porting from?

Quite an old version - Jetty 7.0.1. 

> If you're using spring web libraries, then you will need to ensure that you 
> have annotation processing turned on. See this chapter of the jetty docs: 
> https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/9.4.8.v20171121/annotations.html 
> <https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/9.4.8.v20171121/annotations.html>
Aha - thank you. That will certainly be part of my problem…

I’ll let you know how I get on.

Best wishes,

Robert

> 
> Jan
> 
> On 9 January 2018 at 15:23, Robert Stroud <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have inherited a legacy web application that we distribute as a WAR file 
> with a separate launcher application that uses Jetty to launch the 
> application. The web application is built using Grails, which uses the Spring 
> framework.
> 
> The latest version of Grails uses Spring Boot to build the war file - my 
> understanding is that Spring Boot depends on version 3.0 of the Servlet 
> specification and uses a WebApplicationInitializer to bootstrap the 
> configuration. In particular, there is no web.xml configuration in the war 
> file.
> 
> I have updated our launcher application to use Jetty 9.4.8, which I believe 
> supports Servlet 3.x, but when I launch the web application, I see what is 
> effectively a directory listing of the war file that looks like this:
> Directory: /
> 
> META-INF/  <http://localhost:61508/META-INF/> 102 bytes       Jan 9, 2018 
> 1:35:44 PM
> WEB-INF/  <http://localhost:61508/WEB-INF/>   136 bytes       Jan 9, 2018 
> 1:35:42 PM
> assets/  <http://localhost:61508/assets/>     8024 bytes      Jan 9, 2018 
> 1:35:44 PM
> 
> How do I configure Jetty to recognise the WebApplicationInitializer and load 
> the Spring Boot application correctly? The current version of the launch code 
> creates a WebAppContext in the usual way, but I assume I need to do something 
> different.
> WebAppContext context = new WebAppContext();
> context.setWar(APPLICATION_WAR);
> context.setContextPath("/");
> 
> server.setHandler(context);
> server.addLifeCycleListener(this);
> try {
>    server.start();
> } catch (Exception e) {
>    serverError(e.getMessage());
> }
> Thank you
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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