Prerequisite

Maven 3.x installed – try http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi
Important: earlier versions of Maven, such as 2.x, won’t work correctly

Set-up

Locate a subdirectory and run:

mvn archetype:generate

When prompted, use maven-archetype-quickstart as the archetype to use.  Enter the groupId, artifactId, version, etc.

Add dependencies and plugins into pom.xml

A relatively useless pom.xml file is generated.  Modify it to include some dependencies and plugins:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.van</groupId>
<artifactId>sampleweb</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>1.0</version>
<name>sampleweb</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
<finalName>sampleweb</finalName>
<plugins>

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<contextPath>/</contextPath>
</configuration>
</plugin>

</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Add web.xml per Java Servlet specs

Create the subdirectory src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ and add into it <strong?web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>SampleServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.van.SampleServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>SampleServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/SampleServlet/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Create SampleServlet.java

Under src/main/java/, delete the App.java generated and add the servlet file under the appropriate package subdirectory (e.g. “org/van/SampleServlet.java”):

package org.van;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class SampleServlet extends HttpServlet {
/*
Redirects to some other page. Sample usage:
http://localhost:8080/SampleServlet?destination=http://www.therealvan.com
*/
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {

String dest = req.getParameter("destination");
resp.sendRedirect(dest);
}
}

Run

Just invoke the Jetty run command:

mvn jetty:run

Zip of starter project

Here is a zip of the starter project to extract wherever to get started:
sampleweb.zip

Details

The sample project uses the following:

• Java Servlet 2.5 API
• Maven compiler plugin
• jetty-maven-plugin