Unable to load resources when running scalatra servlet from local jetty instance.

LocalServer.scala

import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server
import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.{DefaultServlet, ServletContextHandler}
import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext
import org.scalatra.servlet.ScalatraListener

object JettyLauncher { // this is my entry object as specified in sbt project definition
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val port = if(System.getenv("PORT") != null) System.getenv("PORT").toInt else 8080

    val server = new Server(port)
    val context = new WebAppContext()
    context.setContextPath("/")
    context.setResourceBase("src/main/webapp")
    context.addEventListener(new ScalatraListener)
    context.addServlet(classOf[DefaultServlet], "/")

    server.setHandler(context)

    server.start
    server.join
  }
}

ScalatraBootstrap.scala

import frontend._
import org.scalatra._
import javax.servlet.ServletContext

class ScalatraBootstrap extends LifeCycle {
  override def init(context: ServletContext) {

    // Mount one or more servlets
    context.mount(new FrontendRoutes, "/*")
  }
}

servlet.scala

package frontend

import org.scalatra.ScalatraServlet
import com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource
import java.util.Properties
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
import scala.slick.driver.MySQLDriver.simple._
import Database.threadLocalSession
import java.sql.Timestamp

trait Frontend extends ScalatraServlet {

  val logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass)

  val cpds = {
    val props = new Properties
    val propstream = getClass.getResourceAsStream("/c3p0.properties")
    props.load(propstream)
    val cpds = new ComboPooledDataSource
    cpds.setProperties(props)
    logger.info("Created c3p0 connection pool")
    cpds
  }

  def closeDbConnection() {
    logger.info("Closing c3po connection pool")
    cpds.close
  }

  val db = Database.forDataSource(cpds)

  override def destroy() {
    super.destroy()
    closeDbConnection
  }
}

class FrontendRoutes extends ScalatraServlet with Frontend {
}