Building Jetty RPMs

RPM (RedHat Package Manager) is a popular way of distributing applications on RedHat Linux Derived Distros. Here is a step on how to make a RPM package for Jetty6,

Note: this one is only for RedHat Based Distros like CentOS, Feodora, Redhat and etc, as for Debian Based distros like Ubunto deb packages will be comming soon

Requirements:

    - Sould be Built on Redhat Based Linux distros
    - must have a rpm-build installed in your box
    if rpm-build is not installed in your linux box execute the command below

yum install rpm-build

Step 0:

    - Building a Jetty RPM Requires Maven BeanShell Plugin, if you have done this already proceed to Step 1
    on your <jetty-root>/contrib/maven-beanshell-plugin dir execute the maven command bellow

mvn install

Step 1:

    - now you are ready to build jetty rpm pacakges
    - in your <jetty-root>/contrib/rpm , execute the command bellow

mvn install

Step 2:

    - your Jetty RPM Files are found at the <jetty-root>/contrib/rpm/target folder

Rpm File Outputs:

jetty6-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty RPM Package
jetty6-lib-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty Library RPM Package
jetty6-jsp-2.0-api-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty JSP 2.0 API RPM Package
jetty6-jsp-2.1-api-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty JSP 2.1 API RPM Package
jetty6-servlet-2.5-api-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty Servlet 2.5 API RPM Package
jetty6-samples-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty Samples RPM Package