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Create File Server With Jetty
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// http://git.eclipse.org/c/jetty/org.eclipse.jetty.project.git/plain/examples/embedded/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/embedded/FileServer.java
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Handler;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.DefaultHandler;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerList;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ResourceHandler;
/**
* Simple Jetty FileServer.
* This is a simple example of Jetty configured as a FileServer.
*/
public class FileServer {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// Create a basic Jetty server object that will listen on port 8080. Note that if you set this to port 0
// then a randomly available port will be assigned that you can either look in the logs for the port,
// or programmatically obtain it for use in test cases.
Server server = new Server(8080);
// Create the ResourceHandler. It is the object that will actually handle the request for a given file. It is
// a Jetty Handler object so it is suitable for chaining with other handlers as you will see in other examples.
ResourceHandler resource_handler = new ResourceHandler();
// Configure the ResourceHandler. Setting the resource base indicates where the files should be served out of.
// In this example it is the current directory but it can be configured to anything that the jvm has access to.
resource_handler.setDirectoriesListed(true);
resource_handler.setWelcomeFiles(new String[]{"index.html"});
resource_handler.setResourceBase("src");
// Add the ResourceHandler to the server.
HandlerList handlers = new HandlerList();
handlers.setHandlers(new Handler[]{resource_handler, new DefaultHandler()});
server.setHandler(handlers);
// Start things up! By using the server.join() the server thread will join with the current thread.
// See "http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html#join()" for more details.
server.start();
server.join();
}
}
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