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
   
   

Step -1:

    - Build Jetty 

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
   
   

Step 1:

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

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

How To Install RPM Files

Using Yum (advantages of using yum is dependencies are automatically downloaded)

• create a file jetty.repo on /etc/yum.repos.d containing the configuration below
  
  
  
• to create a repository you need to execute createrepo command in your directory where your rpms riside

• if createrepo is not available in your box, then execute first the command below then try executing again, the command above

Jetty RPM File Structures

jetty6-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty RPM Package

Requires: jetty6-lib

Output Files:

• /etc/init.d/jetty - Jetty6 Startup Script for Redhat Based Linux Service Daemon, this file is added in chkconfig so that this will automatically start jetty as a service
• jetty-home (located at /usr/share/jetty6) - contains start.jar, Licences, README.txt, resources and VERSIONS.txt
• jetty-conf (located at /etc/jetty6) - contains jetty configuration files
• /etc/jetty6/contexts - where you will add your contexts
• jetty-webapps (located at /var/jetty6/webapps) - where you will deploy your web-applications
• jetty-logs (located at /var/log/jetty6) - where log files are located
  

jetty6-lib-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty Library RPM Package

Requires: jetty6-jsp-2.0-api, jetty6-jsp-2.1-api and jetty6-servlet-2.1-api

Output Files:

• jetty6-lib (located at /usr/share/java/jetty6-lib) - jetty jar libraries namely, jetty, jetty-util annotations, jetty-management, jetty-setuid and libsetuid.so
  

jetty6-jsp-2.0-api-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty JSP 2.0 API RPM Package

Requires: jakarta-commons-el, xerces-j2, ant

Output Files:

• /usr/share/java/jetty6-jsp-2.0-api - jsp 2.0 jar libraries and other libraries
  
  
  

jetty6-jsp-2.1-api-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty JSP 2.1 API RPM Package

Requires: ant

Output Files:

• /usr/share/java/jetty6-jsp-2.1-api - jsp 2.1 jar libraries and other libraries
  
  
  

jetty6-servlet-2.5-api-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty Servlet 2.5 API RPM Package

Requires: none

Output Files:

• /usr/share/java/jetty6-servlet-2.5-api - contains servlet 2.5 jar library
  
  

  jetty6-samples-6.1-*.noarch.rpm - Jetty Samples RPM Package

Requires: jetty

Output Files:

• installs sample web-app in /var/jetty6/webapps, namely: test and test-jaas sample web-apps