Re: [jetty-users] Serving JSPs from Jetty - What am I missing

[Benson Margulies <bimargulies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse,

Did you ever remove the <scope>provided</scope> that I already noted in the bz?

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jesse McConnell
<jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> if you do figure out something thats not right or not easily usable do
> bug it in bugzilla
>
> thanks!
> jesse
>
> --
> jesse mcconnell
> jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 07:57, Benson Margulies <bimargulies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Cefn,
>>
>> if you look at the bottom of that bugzilla, you will see that it notes
>> that there is a (mistaken?) use of the Maven 'provided' scope which
>> results in the dependencies being effectively not declared -- or at
>> least there was when I went through this before.
>>
>> --benson
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Cefn Hoile
>> <jetty-users_eclipse.org@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Thanks for your pointers, Michael. Really useful and I got JSPs up and
>>> running on Jetty 7 in no time. Couple of quick notes.
>>>
>>> In the maven ids available to me there wasn't a 'jetty-server-all',
>>> but there was a 'jetty-server' under org.eclipse.jetty.aggregate which
>>> sounded close to what you were suggesting. I selected version 7.2.2 to
>>> avoid the IP issues you mention about the version 8 deps.
>>>
>>> I'm still relying on Jasper I think, but only as loaded through
>>> glassfish, so I stuck with my original binding to Jasper's JspServlet,
>>> which seemed to work once I'd explicitly specified the root path with
>>> ServletContextHandler#setResourceBase(".") pointing to the current
>>> working directory before Server#start(). The resource base otherwise
>>> defaults to null hence some of the problems I was experiencing before,
>>> I guess.
>>>
>>> I'm confused why org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-jsp-2.1 isn't configured to
>>> trigger a download of its dependencies. I can see the dependencies
>>> mentioned in its POM, but it lists them as 'provided', meaning it
>>> doesn't automatically cause them to be requested from the repo, and I
>>> have to manually add them. Funnily enough the combination of jetty and
>>> jetty-jsp-2.1 was one of the original combinations I tried. When I
>>> found jetty-jsp-2.1 loaded a single jar with a single logging class
>>> file and nothing else to do with JSPs I assumed I was doing the wrong
>>> thing and looked elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Is this issue with dependency declarations a bug which needs reporting?
>>>
>>> For others seeking a similar configuration I also needed to add the
>>> jetty-servlet dependency explicitly to give me DefaultServlet for
>>> static fileserving, although I suppose there are a few configurations
>>> which wouldn't require this.
>>>
>>> Cefn
>>> http://cefn.com
>>>
>>> On 24 December 2010 01:09, Michael Gorovoy <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> All Jetty 7 releases starting with Jetty 7.1 contain JSP support out of the
>>>> box using Glassfish binaries, so you should not add a Jasper dependency to
>>>> your project. Please refer to Bug 330418 for the explanation of the Maven
>>>> dependencies of Jetty JSP support module. The JSP support modules for Jetty
>>>> 8 are undergoing the IP process at the Eclipse Foundation. If you would like
>>>> to use Jetty 8 with JSP support, your best bet is to download Jetty Hightide
>>>> distribution from Codehaus.
>>>>
>>>> If you are starting the server programmatically, your should use one of the
>>>> Jetty aggregate modules (e.g. jetty-server-all) that contains everything you
>>>> would need to start and run Jetty server as your Maven project dependency.
>>>> Your JSP files should be located in the root directory or sub-directories of
>>>> the root directory of your web application. Please refer to
>>>> LikeJettyXml.java from examples-jetty-embedded module for the example of how
>>>> to start embedded Jetty that contains web application support.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Cefn Hoile
>>>> <jetty-users_eclipse.org@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello all, having christmas fun configuring Jetty. I have hello world
>>>>> and freemarker servlets working but I'm stuck getting it to serve
>>>>> JSPs.
>>>>>
>>>>> From what I can see, I should use Jasper with Jetty to get JSP
>>>>> support. Reckon I have the JspServlet loading and serving without
>>>>> Exceptions, but I think it's failing to find .jsp files, and I've
>>>>> tried putting them in the working directory, in WEB-INF, and various
>>>>> other places with no luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm guessing there's some option for Jasper which is automagically
>>>>> configured in a Tomcat setup which I'll have to do explicitly for
>>>>> Jetty, but I don't know what. The init params for JspServlet offer no
>>>>> useful control variables about pointing to .jsp files...
>>>>> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-4.1-doc/jasper-howto.html#Configuration
>>>>>
>>>>> Jetty is launched explicitly like...
>>>>> Server server = new Server(8080);
>>>>> ...and I have the equivalent of web.xml wiring all requests for JSPs
>>>>> to the jasper JspServlet class, which looks like this in Guice...
>>>>> serve("*.jsp").with(JspServlet.class);
>>>>> ...but when a jsp is actually routed to the JspServlet it responds...
>>>>>
>>>>> HTTP ERROR: 404
>>>>> Problem accessing /index.jsp. Reason:
>>>>>    /index.jsp
>>>>> Powered by Jetty://
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I right in thinking I can use Jasper's JspServlet to give me JSPs
>>>>> on Jetty? The Jetty docs are pretty sketchy on JSPs, and everything
>>>>> else on the subject points to Tomcat.
>>>>>
>>>>> If Jasper is the right way to go, what configuration step am I
>>>>> missing, e.g. to somehow tell Jasper where to look for .jsp files?
>>>>>
>>>>> Given the mysterious error message, perhaps there's a missing
>>>>> dependency? If so, can anyone tell me what dependencies I need to add
>>>>> to Jetty 8 in order to be able to serve JSPs (I've been adding many
>>>>> combinations of things from Maven repos and no luck so far). Currently
>>>>> the relevant dependencies in my POM are...
>>>>>
>>>>> org.eclipse.jetty jetty-distribution 8.0.0.M2
>>>>> org.eclipse.jetty jetty-jsp-2.1 7.22
>>>>> javax.servlet jstl 1.2
>>>>> org.apache.tomcat jsp-api 6.0.29
>>>>> org.apache.tomcat jasper 6.0.29
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone can guide me to initialise Jasper's JspServlet correctly, or
>>>>> suggest a alternate JSP engine with a known working configuration on
>>>>> Jetty, that would be great.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cefn
>>>>> http://cefn.com
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