It turns out I can ignore these IllegalArgumentExceptions. I had another error 
later on which was stopping my app from running in jetty.

Tim


On 26 Apr 2014, at 19:22, D Tim Cummings <[email protected]> wrote:

> I got mvn jetty:run to run. It turned out I had a mistake in my web.xml. In 
> the resource-ref I had res-type javax.sql.Datasource instead of 
> javax.sql.DataSource. This was triggering a ClassNotFound on 
> javax.sql.Datasource
> 
> The problem with mvn jetty:run is it doesn't seem to support Tapestry's live 
> class reloading even though production mode is false. Using RunJettyRun with 
> Andrus's solution does support live class reloading. Using RunJettyRun with 
> JNDI and jetty 7 I get the following errors.
> 
> When my jetty-env.xml tries to configure jndi in (as per Michael's "Cayenne 
> by Example")
> 
> <Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
> 
> I get 
> 
> Exception happened when loading Jetty.xml:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Object of class 
> 'org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server' is not of type 
> 'org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext'. 
>       at 
> org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$JettyXmlConfiguration.configure(XmlConfiguration.java:318)
>       at 
> org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.configure(XmlConfiguration.java:279)
>       at runjettyrun.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:66)
> 2014-04-26 18:50:26.242:INFO:oejs.Server:jetty-7.6.2.v20120308
> 
> 
> When I edit jetty-env.xml to be
> 
> <Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
> 
> I get 
> 
> 2014-04-26 18:53:30.942:INFO:oejs.Server:jetty-7.6.2.v20120308
> 2014-04-26 18:53:31.054:WARN:oejw.WebAppContext:Failed startup of context 
> o.e.j.w.WebAppContext{/tims-app,[file:/Users/tim/github/tims-app/tims-app/src/main/webapp/]}
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Object of class 
> 'org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext' is not of type 
> 'org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server'. 
>       at 
> org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$JettyXmlConfiguration.configure(XmlConfiguration.java:318)
>       at 
> org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.configure(XmlConfiguration.java:279)
>       at 
> org.eclipse.jetty.plus.webapp.EnvConfiguration.configure(EnvConfiguration.java:119)
>       at 
> org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.configure(WebAppContext.java:429)
> 
> I noticed also that mvn jetty:run launches jetty 7.5.1.c20110908
> RunJettyRun gives an option to select jetty 7.5.1.v20110908 but when I select 
> it the actual jetty which runs is 7.6.2.v20120308
> 
> (To remove some error messages in RunJettyRun with JNDI I had to add 
> mysql-connector-java-5.1.26.jar, commons-dbcp-1.4.jar and 
> commons-pool-1.5.4.jar to Custom Jetty Classpath.)
> 
> So for now I will use Andrus's suggestion of system properties to bypass JNDI 
> in development, unless someone can advise how to get live class reloading 
> from mvn jetty:run or how to get JNDI working in RunJettyRun.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tim
> 
> On 26 Apr 2014, at 10:11, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:27 PM, D Tim Cummings <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am certainly finding jetty easier than tomcat in eclipse and once I get 
>>> more familiar with it I may recommend it for production.  I am a bit 
>>> concerned at all the different versions of jetty floating around with so 
>>> many people sticking to old versions. Many people use version 6 while 
>>> version 9 is recommended by http://www.eclipse.org/jetty. RunJettyRun 
>>> doesn't have a version 9 option.
>> 
>> Really, once you get the basics of the jetty config file, it's just
>> faster and easier to run jetty directly rather than messing around
>> with the eclipse plugin.   You don't have to worry about the plugin
>> supporting your jetty version or settings.   When you want to upgrade,
>> you just update your user library to contain the new jetty version.
>> 
>> 
>>> Embedded jetty sounds very tempting. I am not sure what the deployment 
>>> options on Windows are. I can't expect my Windows users to go to the 
>>> command line, and I don't know enough about Windows to create alternative 
>>> launch techniques.
>> 
>> Basically, you build a jar file instead of a war/ear file, then you
>> just run it with java -jar myapp.jar.   You'd probably want to set an
>> environment variable to point at your config file or something along
>> those lines.
> 

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