Jetty Daemon Runner

Ever wanted a servlet engine in a single runnable JAR that could correctly daemonize and run WAR from a command line?

Jetty Daemon Runner improves over existing jetty-runner with JVM daemonization. It's packaged as a single runnable jar you can use on Unix platforms supported by Akuma/JNA.

Download latest release (0.6)

Usage

• Start Jetty at port 8080 serving WAR at / as a daemon in background

	java -jar jetty-daemon.jar --start --pid some.pid some.war

• Stop Jetty using pid file

	java -jar jetty-daemon.jar --stop --pid some.pid

Features

• Supports Java 8 on Unix
• Start/stop/restart service
• Detaching from terminal (no need for nohup, java service wrapper...)
• All dependencies packaged as a single runnable JAR
• BSD style license

Command line options

Addition daemon server opts:
 --start                             - detach from a terminal and run in background
 --stop                              - stop running server by pid
 --restart                           - restarts server by pid
 --pid file                          - PID file
 --chdir dir                         - change running directory

Usage: java [-Djetty.home=dir] -jar jetty-runner.jar [--help|--version] [ server opts] [[ context opts] context ...]
Server opts:
 --version                           - display version and exit
 --log file                          - request log filename (with optional 'yyyy_mm_dd' wildcard
 --out file                          - info/warn/debug log filename (with optional 'yyyy_mm_dd' wildcard
 --host name|ip                      - interface to listen on (default is all interfaces)
 --port n                            - port to listen on (default 8080)
 --stop-port n                       - port to listen for stop command
 --stop-key n                        - security string for stop command (required if --stop-port is present)
 [--jar file]*n                      - each tuple specifies an extra jar to be added to the classloader
 [--lib dir]*n                       - each tuple specifies an extra directory of jars to be added to the classloader
 [--classes dir]*n                   - each tuple specifies an extra directory of classes to be added to the classloader
 --stats [unsecure|realm.properties] - enable stats gathering servlet context
 [--config file]*n                   - each tuple specifies the name of a jetty xml config file to apply (in the order defined)
Context opts:
 [[--path /path] context]*n          - WAR file, web app dir or context xml file, optionally with a context path

References

• Akuma for JVM daemonization
• JNA for native code access
• Jetty Runner favorite servlet engine

Author Contact and Support

For further information please contact Vjekoslav Nesek (vnesek@nmote.com)