Spring WebApplicationInitializer and Jetty 8.x - spring

Question

I am trying to deploy an app in Jetty using Maven:
I have the plugin configured as follows:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>8.0.4.v20111024</version>
</plugin>
And I have a WebApplicationContextInitializer, I have cut it down to a simple form for here:
AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext dispatcherContext = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
// Register and map the main dispatcher servlet
ServletRegistration.Dynamic dispatcher = container.addServlet("appServlet", new DispatcherServlet(dispatcherContext));
dispatcher.setLoadOnStartup(2);
dispatcher.addMapping("/site/*");
When I run jetty:run from within Spring Tool Suite I cannot access my servlet. The startup logs are:
[INFO] Configuring Jetty for project: Test
[INFO] webAppSourceDirectory C:\Users\Alex\Documents\spring\Test\src\main\webapp does not exist. Defaulting to C:\Users\Alex\Documents\spring\Test\src\main\webapp
[INFO] Reload Mechanic: automatic
[INFO] Classes = C:\Users\Alex\Documents\spring\Test\target\classes
[INFO] Context path = /
[INFO] Tmp directory = C:\Users\Alex\Documents\spring\Test\target\tmp
[INFO] Web defaults = org/eclipse/jetty/webapp/webdefault.xml
[INFO] Web overrides = none
[INFO] web.xml file = null
[INFO] Webapp directory = C:\Users\Alex\Documents\spring\Test\src\main\webapp
2012-02-06 21:22:38.048:INFO:oejs.Server:jetty-8.0.4.v20111024
2012-02-06 21:22:38.807:INFO:oejpw.PlusConfiguration:No Transaction manager found - if your webapp requires one, please configure one.
2012-02-06 21:22:41.828:INFO:/:Spring WebApplicationInitializers detected on classpath: [org.test.application.config.TestWebApplicationInitializer#f946f9]
2012-02-06 21:22:41.965:INFO:/:Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'appServlet'
INFO : org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet 'appServlet': initialization started
INFO : org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext - Refreshing WebApplicationContext for namespace 'appServlet-servlet': startup date [Mon Feb 06 21:22:41 GMT 2012]; root of context hierarchy
INFO : org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner - JSR-330 'javax.inject.Named' annotation found and supported for component scanning
INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor - JSR-330 'javax.inject.Inject' annotation found and supported for autowiring
INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory#18b24cb: defining beans [org.springframework.context.annotation.internalConfigurationAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalAutowiredAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalRequiredAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalCommonAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalPersistenceAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor$ImportAwareBeanPostProcessor#0]; root of factory hierarchy
INFO : org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet 'appServlet': initialization completed in 235 ms
2012-02-06 21:22:42.344:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.m.j.p.JettyWebAppContext{/,file:/C:/Users/Alex/Documents/spring/Test/src/main/webapp/},file:/C:/Users/Alex/Documents/spring/Test/src/main/webapp/
2012-02-06 21:22:42.344:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.m.j.p.JettyWebAppContext{/,file:/C:/Users/Alex/Documents/spring/Test/src/main/webapp/},file:/C:/Users/Alex/Documents/spring/Test/src/main/webapp/
2012-02-06 21:22:42.345:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.m.j.p.JettyWebAppContext{/,file:/C:/Users/Alex/Documents/spring/Test/src/main/webapp/},file:/C:/Users/Alex/Documents/spring/Test/src/main/webapp/
2012-02-06 2012-02-06 21:22:42.352:INFO:oejs.AbstractConnector:Started SelectChannelConnector#0.0.0.0:8080 STARTING
[INFO] Started Jetty Server
If then navigate to http://localhost:8080/ I get the default Jetty page with no contexts listed.
I have tried copying webdefaults.xml into my project as described here but this didn't fix the issue. It just removed the default servlet page.
This deploys correctly in Tomcat so I suspect an issue in the maven-jetty-plugin.
Does anyone have any experience in this area?
Edit:
So I can confirm that if I change the Jetty config so that the app is deployed under context /application and then navigate to http://localhost:8080/application/site/ I get a 404.
However, the dispatcher servlet has logged:
No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/application/site/] in DispatcherServlet with name 'appServlet'
This suggests that there is an issue with my Controller mappings correct?
The startup logs show this mapping is registered:
Mapped "{[/],methods=[],params=[],headers=[],consumes=[],produces=[],custom=[]}" onto public java.lang.String org.test.application.controller.HomeController.catchAll()
What am I missing?

Answer 1

It seems that the new Jetty plugin is using root "/" as root context of the web application, the old one was as written below:
contextPath Optional. The context path for your webapp. By default,
this is set to the from the project's pom.xml. You can
override it and set it to anything you like here.