6.2.2. WAR deployment to Jetty

You can deploy CUBA applications to WAR files using the buildWar build task and run them on any Java servlet container. An example of deployment of the WAR files to the Jetty web server is provided below.

  1. Add the buildWar task to the end of build.gradle:

    task buildWar(type: CubaWarBuilding) {
    appHome = '${app.home}'
    singleWar = false
}
    Tip

    Please note that we build two separate WAR files for Middleware and Web Client blocks here. If you want to combine them into one WAR file with the singleWar = true parameter, provide the special web.xml file as described in this section.

  2. Start build process:

    gradlew buildWar

    As a result, the app-core.war and app.war files will be created in the build\distributions\war project subdirectory.

  3. Create an application home directory, for example, c:\work\app_home.

  4. Download and install Jetty to a local directory, for example c:\work\jetty-home. This example has been tested on jetty-distribution-9.3.6.v20151106.zip.

  5. Create the c:\work\jetty-base directory, open the command prompt in it and execute:

    java -jar c:\work\jetty-home\start.jar --add-to-start=http,jndi,deploy,plus,ext,resources

  6. Create the c:\work\jetty-base\app-jetty.xml file with the following contents (for a PostgreSQL database named test):

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_0.dtd">
<Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
    <New id="CubaDS" class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.Resource">
        <Arg></Arg>
        <Arg>jdbc/CubaDS</Arg>
        <Arg>
            <New class="org.postgresql.ds.PGSimpleDataSource">
                <Set name="ServerName">localhost</Set>
                <Set name="PortNumber">5432</Set>
                <Set name="DatabaseName">test</Set>
                <Set name="User">cuba</Set>
                <Set name="Password">cuba</Set>
            </New>
        </Arg>
    </New>
</Configure>

  7. Add the following text to the beginning of c:\work\jetty-base\start.ini file:

    --exec
-Xdebug
-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=8787,server=y,suspend=n
-Dapp.home=c:\work\app_home
-Dlogback.configurationFile=c:\work\app_home\logback.xml
# ---------------------------------------
app-jetty.xml

  8. Copy the JDBC driver for your database to the c:\work\jetty-base\lib\ext directory. You can take the driver file from the CUBA Studio lib directory or from the build\tomcat\lib project directory. In case of PostgreSQL database, it is postgresql-9.1-901.jdbc4.jar.

  9. Copy WAR files to the c:\work\jetty-base\webapps directory.

  10. Open the command prompt in the c:\work\jetty-base directory and run:

    java -jar c:\work\jetty-home\start.jar

  11. Open http://localhost:8080/app in your web browser.