Static content with Maven Jetty Plugin - maven

Question

How can I serve static content with maven jetty plugin (7.x)
Thanks

Answer 1

put your static contents under any folder below /yourStaticApp/src/main/webapp -- say under /yourStaticApp/src/main/webapp/static. When you will run Jetty these will be available as http://host:port/contextRoot/static/fileName.ext
Hmmm, unsure, if that's possible. Eclipse Jetty Maven plugin documents a way to configure static source location, which boils down to the alternate location of webapps mentioned above.
...
<plugin>
...
<configuration>
<webAppSourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/staticfiles</webAppSourceDirectory>
...
</configuration>
...
</plugin>
...
As the doc points out:
<webAppSourceDirectory>–By default, this is set to ${basedir}/src/main/webapp. If your static sources are in a different location, set this parameter accordingly.
refer: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Feature/Jetty_Maven_Plugin
Update: On some more reseach I found out that you can actually point the location of webdefault.xml from in Jetty-maven plugin; and in webdefault.xml you can configure the static content location.
In your Jetty Maven configuration, point the location of wendefault.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
...
<defaultsDescriptor>/my/path/to/webdefault.xml</defaultsDescriptor>
...
</configuration>
</plugin>
Now, with webdefault.xml in your hand you can put the configuration mentioned here: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Static+Content -- except the package Names has been changed from org.mortbay.jetty... to org.eclipse.jetty... see below:
<Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.Context">
<Set name="contextPath">/javadoc</Set>
<Set name="resourceBase"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/javadoc/</Set>
<Call name="addServlet">
<Arg>org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.DefaultServlet</Arg>
<Arg>/</Arg>
</Call>
</Configure>
refer: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Reference/webdefault.xml
I haven't tested/used the above. But let me know, if you get this working. Or if anything else needed to get this done.

Answer 2

I have such a configuration at my jetty.xml. I have just wanted to updated my question.
<Set name="handler">
<New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerList">
<Set name="handlers">
<Array type="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Handler">
<Item>
<New class="org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler">
<Set name="contextPath">/static</Set>
<Set name="resourceBase">${static-resources-path}</Set>
<Call name="addServlet">
<Arg>org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.DefaultServlet</Arg>
<Arg>/</Arg>
</Call>
</New>
</Item>
</Array>
</Set>
</New>
</Set>

Answer 3

This is a config which works for me, using the resourceBase and contextPath values on the JettyWebAppContext
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>9.4.7.v20170914</version>
<configuration>
<scanIntervalSeconds>60</scanIntervalSeconds>
<webApp>
<contextPath>/app</contextPath>
</webApp>
<contextHandlers>
<contextHandler implementation="org.eclipse.jetty.maven.plugin.JettyWebAppContext">
<contextPath>/images</contextPath>
<resourceBase>./../../env/localhost/config/images</resourceBase>
</contextHandler>
</contextHandlers>