[jetty-discuss] Embedding part of Jetty within a J2EE webapp?

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Hi,

I am currently researching a way to implement web-container-like 
functionality within a J2EE compliant webapp, that can run on 
theoretically any servlet container.

One way to do this, would be to embed parts of jetty such that a number 
of self-managed web applications could be served through the servlet 
container already sourrounding the controlling webapp.

This would include instantiating a Context (perhaps instantiating a 
HttpContext would do the trick?) and have this serve servlets, jsp, etc. 
from sources defined by the code instantiating the context.

My question is this: Is it possible, and feasable, to instantiate a 
jetty representation of a Context, and have it serve servlets, compile 
and serve JSPs, etc.? This should work as continued processing for the 
existing HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse and HttpSession. The 
Context in question should function as a partial decoration of the 
existing Context.

Is it possible to implement something providing resource data for 
serving both static content and JSPs, such that the filesystem/webapp 
archive can be replaced with arbitary sources?

Any input appreciated.


-dennis