Gretty is a feature-rich gradle plugin for running web-apps on embedded servlet containers. It supports Jetty versions 7, 8 and 9, Tomcat versions 7, 8 and 9, multiple web-apps and many more. It wraps servlet container functions as convenient Gradle tasks and configuration DSL.
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Fast reload with in-place web app and asset pipeline in Gradle/Gretty
I'm using Gretty to run my web application via gradle appRun. I'm also using the Gradle Asset Pipeline plugin to compile my Less files to CSS.
I want to integrate with Gretty's Fast reload feature so that when I change a Less file, it automatically…

Nathan
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gradle, gretty - How to run a task in farm task?
I would like to run a task in farm task:
farm {
// run my task here.
}
Can anyone help me with this?

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How can I run appRunWar in a port other than the one defined in the build.gradle
I' having issues while trying to change the port for Gretty as indicated in the Gretty documentation.
Gradle appRunWar -PhttpPort=8888
The only way it works is by changing the build.gradle gretty block
gretty {
http = 8888
contextPath =…

lac_dev
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How to start/stop backend for frontend system tests in gradle?
I'm using Java Spring as backend and Angular as frontend.
I have a system test for the Frontend that requires that the backend has already started.
In gradle I already have a npm-task that starts the frontend tests.
How can I configure gradle or…

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Upgrading from gretty 3.0.1 to 3.0.7 causes error could not get unknown property 'mainClass'
I am currently running gradle version 5.6.4. When trying to upgrade our gretty dependency from 3.0.1 to 3.0.5 or 3.0.7, I am running into this error with no other information:
Exception in thread "Thread-65" groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException:…

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Gradle 6.5.1 gretty 3.0.3 unable to run jetty
I am trying to build my first REST API, using jersey on Eclipse. This is my build.gradle:
plugins {
//id "com.dsvdsv.gradle.plugin" version "1.5.1"
//id 'org.gretty' version '2.1.0'
id "org.gretty" version "3.0.3"
//id…

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Alternatives to the Gradle Gretty Plugin
I’m trying to upgrade some old code that used the Jetty plugin in Gradle. I would like to upgrade the Gradle version beyond Gradle v3.5, but Gradle v4.0 and above has the Jetty plugin removed. Unfortunately, we are now required to use Gretty.
I’m…

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Jetty doesn't initialize after gradle5.0 upgrade
Upgraded the project to gradle5.0. Jetty doesn't start anymore.
I'm using org.gretty 3.0.1 version.
From my build.gradle:
plugins{
id 'java'
id 'eclipse-wtp'
id 'org.gretty' version '3.0.1'
}
gretty {
httpPort = 8096
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Nandu
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Why Gretty is slow?
i have no idea why my gretty takes a very long time to run appStart tasks.
Anyone have idea why it stop at the step "appStart", and i need to wait for about 30 minutes before it continue to the next step...
Is it working on something in the…

Think Tank
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Enable to run appStart task because of NoClassDefFoundError: Lorg/jCharts/properties/PieChart2DProperties
I have been successfully able to deploy my web app war file on tomcat using gretty task appStartWar or tomcatStartWar but when I try to deploy the same web app inplace using appStart or tomcatStart, I am getting error saying A child container failed…

Akhilesh Goutam
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Gretty, setting "Module specified Libraries" from repository
I asked for similar question jetty-jndi-resource-fails using Jetty only, which is described by Jetty documentation as Jetty: startup-classpath.
Now I like to use "Module specified Libraries" and setup it over Gretty as repository dependencies. I…

Marek-A-
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Jetty JNDI resource fails: "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"
When I started the Jetty (over Gretty plugin) I get the CNF exception. When I run
gradlew :MyWebApplication:appRun -ds > g.log
I see following configuration in debug:
{
"servletContainerId": "jetty9.3",
"servletContainerDescription":…

Marek-A-
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Gretty configuration doesn't applied when using farmRun task
I'm using the Gretty sample from: https://github.com/gretty-gradle-plugin/gretty-sample
In master build.gradle I modified only repositories URLs (to use mirror repo due proxy):
build.gradle:
apply plugin: 'java'
buildscript {
repositories {
…

Marek-A-
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Gradle: How to include additional package to war?
I have package in root of gradle module. How can I include it in war build using gradle & gretty?
It's non-java package, named 'frontend'.

Вячеслав Чернышов
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Gretty static resources realoading problem
I am trying to configure gretty in a way which will allow me to reload static resources like *.html files (which lives inside standard src/webapp/WEB-INF) without server redeploy. However all my attempts were unsuccessful.
I test it by changing html…

Oleg Baranenko
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