Jetty and Eclipse Integration

This tutorial will walk you through out how to install Jetty on Eclipse, so you can run web applications on Jetty directly from Eclipse IDE.

As I mentioned on a previous post (Installing and running Jetty), I am trying to use Jetty instead of Tomcat. What I like about Tomcat is that Eclipse has native support to it. You can quickly go to the servers view and add a new Tomcat server instance in less than a minute. But Eclipse does not have native support to Jetty, and I did some research of how to do the same easy way with Jetty as well.

I found this plugin Run-Jetty-Run hosted on Google Code and it is very simple to use. So in this post I will show how to install it within Eclipse and in the next post I will show how it is easy to use.

There are two ways of installing a plugin on Eclipse now: using Eclipse Marketplace or the old way which is Install new Software.

Eclipse Marketplace

The link of Run-Jetty_run Plugin on Marketplace is: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/run-jetty-run

1 – Open Eclipse, go to the Help -> Eclipse Marketplace:

2 – Search for run-jetty-run and click on install:

3 – Confirm the installation of the plugin:

4 – Review and accept the licence and click on Finish:

5 – Wait while the plugin is being installed and then restart Eclipse.

Old way - Install new Software

1 – Open Eclipse, go to the Help -> Install new Software:

2 – Click on Add, then fill the form with Name:Jetty (or whatever you like) and Location: http://run-jetty-run.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/updatesite 

3 – Select the plugin and click on Next:

4 – Confirm the installation of the plugin:

5 – Review and accept the licence and click on Finish:

6 – Wait while the plugin is being installed and then restart Eclipse.

On next post, we will see how to use it.

Happy Coding!

Filed in: Jetty | Tags: Eclipse, Jetty