The Naked Objects framework provides a simple bootstrapper class that will run an embedded instance of Jetty against the web.xml. By default the reference to this bootstrapper is deliberately excluded, so to use it comment back in the reference to org.nakedobjects.core:webserver:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.nakedobjects.core</groupId>
  <artifactId>webserver</artifactId>
</dependency>

To run, just run org.nakedobjects.webserver.WebServer. This takes the following arguments:

For testing purposes you'll probably want EXPLORATION, which means you don't have to worry about authentication. For production you'll probably want SERVER, in which case you do need to decide how to handle authentication; but we'll discuss this more in Section 5.4, “Authentication”.

Using the maven-jetty-plugin, we can use Maven to run an embedded instance of Jetty. First, add:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
      <configuration>
        <contextPath>/</contextPath>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

Next, to run in EXPLORATION mode, update the web.xml:

<web-app>
  ...
  <context-param>
    <param-name>deploymentType</param-name>
    <param-value>EXPLORATION</param-value>
  </context-param>
  ...
</web-app>

As we've already mentioned, for testing you'll probably want EXPLORATION, while for production you'll probably want SERVER. See Section 5.4, “Authentication” for more on this.

You can then run Jetty from Maven using:

mvn jetty:run

Finally, you can copy the WAR file and deploy it to an external servlet container.