Setting up Selenium WebDriver, Jetty and the Maven Failsafe plugin

pom.xml

<dependencies>
  ...
    <!-- install the WebDriver API -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
      <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
      <version>2.16.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
...
</dependencies>

<build>

...
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
      <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>8.1.0.RC2</version>
      <configuration>
        <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
        <stopKey>stop</stopKey>
        <stopPort>9999</stopPort>
        <webAppConfig>
          <contextPath>/${project.name}</contextPath>
        </webAppConfig>
      </configuration>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <id>start-jetty</id>
          <goals>
            <goal>run</goal>
          </goals>
          <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
          <configuration>
            <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
            <daemon>true</daemon>
          </configuration>
        </execution>
        <execution>
          <id>stop-jetty</id>
          <goals>
            <goal>stop</goal>
          </goals>
          <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
          <configuration>
            <stopKey>stop</stopKey>
            <stopPort>9999</stopPort>
          </configuration>
        </execution>
      </executions>
    </plugin>
...

    <!-- failsafe runs integration tests, ending or 
         starting with IT. -->
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.8.1</version>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <id>integration-test</id>
          <goals>
            <goal>integration-test</goal>
          </goals>
          <configuration>
            <includes>
              <!-- add other patterns not included with
                   standard tests. -->
              <include>**/IT*</include>
            </includes>
          </configuration>
        </execution>
        <execution>
          <id>verify</id>
          <goals>
            <goal>verify</goal>
          </goals>
        </execution>
      </executions>
    </plugin>
...
  </plugins>
</build>