Programmatic hot deploy with Jetty

1. Create the server:

   Server jetty = new Server();

    

2. Create a handlerCollection with a ContextHandlerCollection in it:

   HandlerCollection hc = new HandlerCollection (); ContextHandlerCollection contextHandlerCollection = new ContextHandlerCollection(); hc.setHandlers(new Handler[]{contextHandlerCollection}); jetty.setHandler(hc);

    

3. Start the server:

   server.start();

    

4. Hot deploy your web application:

   WebAppContext warWebappContext = new WebAppContext(); //configure it ... contextHandlerCollection.addHandler(warWebappContext); warWebappContext.start();

    

5. Hot undeploy your application:

   //get the WebAppContext to undeploy... WebAppContext toUndeploy = getWebAppContextToUndeploy(); //stop it toUndeploy.stop(); //and remove it from the handler collection contextHandlerCollection.removeHandler(toUndeploy);

   In a nutshell, the trick is to use a HandlerCollection for your WebAppContextHandler.
   source: http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/tutorial/programmatic-hot-deploy-with-jetty/