Deploying a servlet programmatically with Jetty

Question

I've got a servlet that I wish to deploy programmatically using Jetty. The servlet uses Spring and it's web.xml points to the Spring context XML file as you'd expect. At the moment, I'm just trying the example code from the Jetty docs but with my own servlet: ``` Server server = new Server(8080); ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS); context.setContextPath("/"); server.setHandler(context); context.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new BatchReceiver()),"/br/*"); server.start(); server.join(); ``` This results in the following exception: ``` 2012-05-24 14:43:20.190:INFO:oejs.Server:jetty-8.1.3.v20120416 2012-05-24 14:43:20.266:WARN:/:unavailable java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener registered? at org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(WebApplicationContextUtils.java:84) at com.spiffymap.sealog.server.servlet.BatchReceiver.init(…

Accepted Answer

For those who are interested, I got this to work as follows:

```
Server server = new Server(8090);

ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
context.setContextPath("/batch");

// Setup Spring context
context.addEventListener(new ContextLoaderListener());
context.setInitParameter("contextConfigLocation", "classpath*:**/testContext.xml");

server.setHandler(context);

// Add servlets
context.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new BatchReceiver()), "/receiver/*");
context.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new BatchSender()), "/sender/*");

server.start();
server.join();
```

The key step I was missing was

```
context.addEventListener(new ContextLoaderListener());
```

which loads the Spring context.

Deploying a servlet programmatically with Jetty

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