Using jetty in an ant project

[Ra Carter]

I am trying to use Jetty with ant using these instructions: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Ant+Jetty+Plugin.

Jetty starts up ok but I still to make a few more adjustments:

* Increase JVM memory (set the -Xms, -Xmx, and -XX:MaxPermSize)
* Enable remote debugging

My ant task is defined as such:
<target name="jetty" depends="make-webapp"> <taskdef resource="tasks.properties" loaderref="jetty.loader"> <classpath> <fileset dir="jetty-lib/"> <include name="eclipse-jdt-core-3.1.1.jar" /> <include name="jetty-6.1.26.jar" /> <include name="jetty-ant-6.1.26.jar" /> <include name="jetty-naming-6.1.26.jar" /> <include name="jetty-plus-6.1.26.jar" /> <include name="jetty-util-6.1.26.jar" /> <include name="jsp-2.1-jetty-6.1.16.jar" /> <include name="jsp-api-2.1-glassfish-9.1.1.B51.25.p1.jar" /> <include name="servlet-api-2.5-6.1.5.jar" /> <include name="jsp-2.1-glassfish-9.1.1.B51.25.p1.jar" /> </fileset> </classpath> </taskdef> <mkdir dir="target/work" /> <jetty tempDirectory="target/work"> <webApp name="myapp" warfile="target/myapp" contextpath="/myapp" /> </jetty> </target>
target/myapp has everything it needs including the WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes folders.

So how can I increase memory and enable remote debugging with this set up?

[Peter Johnson]

As far as I can tell, the <jetty> task runs Jetty in the same JVM as Ant. If that is what you want, then you will have to increase the heap size used by Ant. If, however, you want to run Jetty in a separate JVM, use the <exec> or <java> tasks (make sure you set the fork option with the java task).