Hot Deployment

Hot Deployer Configuration

<Call name="addLifeCycle">
      <Arg>
        <New class="org.mortbay.jetty.deployer.ContextDeployer">
          <Set name="contexts"><Ref id="Contexts"/></Set>
          <Set name="configurationDir"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/contexts</Set>
          <Set name="scanInterval">1</Set>
          <Set name="configurationManager">
            <New class="org.mortbay.jetty.deployer.FileConfigurationManager">
              <Set name="file"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/etc/deployment.properties</Set>
            </New>
          </Set>
        </New>
      </Arg>
</Call>

Property Replacements: the ConfigurationManager

Replaces <Property name="foo"/> with the actual value found in a deployoment.properties file.

sample context.xml

<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd">
<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
  <Set name="contextPath"><Property name="foo"/></Set>
</Configure>

It is equivalent to <Set name="contextPath">/bar</Set>

sample deployment.properties ($jetty.home/etc/deployment.properties)

foo=/bar

ContextDeployer configuration

<Set name="configurationManager">
  <New class="org.mortbay.jetty.deployer.FileConfigurationManager">
    <Set name="file"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/etc/deployment.properties</Set>
  </New>
</Set>