On (at least) two occasions, I've opened JIRAs due to my getting tangled up with eclipse, jetty, and solr/lib.
Well, it occurs to me that a recent idea might be of general use to others in this regard. This fragment is offered for illustration. The idea here is that you can configure the jetty WebAppClassLoader to add an additional lib directory and/or directory of open class files, such as a directory that Eclipse is writing into. This is 'as good as' solr/lib, and allows seamless Eclipse development. File sourceDirFile = new File(webapp.getWebappSourceDirectory()); WebAppContext wac = new WebAppContext(sourceDirFile.getCanonicalPath(), webapp.getContextPath()); WebAppClassLoader loader = new WebAppClassLoader(wac); if (webapp.getLibDirectory() != null) { Resource r = Resource.newResource(webapp.getLibDirectory()); loader.addJars(r); } if (webapp.getClasspathEntries() != null) { for (String dir : webapp.getClasspathEntries()) { loader.addClassPath(dir); } } wac.setClassLoader(loader); server.addHandler(wac);