[Jetty-support] Starting up without loading webapps

[Chris <sh...@ya...>]

I'm using Jetty as an embedded server. I create a org.mortbay.jetty.Server
object, and then specify a webapps directory:

server.addWebApplications(null, // virtual host
 homeDir + "webapps/", // webapps dir
 homeDir + "webapps/root/WEB-INF/webdefault.xml", // defaults
 true); // extract wars

server.start();

This causes all webapps to be loaded on startup. The log gets entries like
this:

20:32:59.298 EVENT
[main]org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.start(HttpContext.java:1901)22> Started
WebApplicationContext[/mysite,file:/C:/mydir/webapps/mysite/]

I'd prefer that the system ignore the contents of the webapps directory
until a user actually makes a request for a particular webapp (by issuing an
http request from a browser). Is there any way to do this?

My webdefaults.xml look just like the default that comes with Jetty. It has
<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup> in a couple of places. I'm using Jetty
4.2.15.