How can you shut down an embedded jetty instance?

Question

I have an embedded jetty project that builds a single .jar file that starts up our webapp.

public static void main(String[] args){            
            final Server server = new Server(threadPool);
            //Do config/setup code for servlets/database/contexts/connectors/etc
            server.start();
            server.dumpStdErr();
            server.join();
}

So while this works great to start our server by calling java -jar MyApp.jar I am at a loss for a way to stop it. This is especially annoying when I want to stop the server via our build server.

When we used the Jetty service and deployed a .war file we could do this:

Build latest .war file via Jenkins
Stop Jetty service via shell (sudo service jetty stop)
Overwrite old .war file in /opt/jetty/webapp with new .war file
Start Jetty service via shell (sudo service jetty start)

I currently have two ideas:

Create a servlet that calls server.stop() if you have a secret get parameter specified. Use curl on the shell in Jekins to hit this servlet.
Use something like Apache-Commons daemon wrapper to make my app into a service.

Is there some obvious mechanism I am missing to stop the server?

Joakim Erdfelt Joakim Erdfelt · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-14T18:29:37

Use the ShutdownHandler

The server side:

Server server = new Server(8080);
HandlerList handlers = new HandlerList();
handlers.setHandlers(new Handler[]
{ someOtherHandler, new ShutdownHandler("secret password", false, true) });
server.setHandler(handlers);
server.start();

The client side (to issue shutdown).

public static void attemptShutdown(int port, String shutdownCookie) {
    try {
        URL url = new URL("http://localhost:" + port + "/shutdown?token=" + shutdownCookie);
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
        connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
        connection.getResponseCode();
        logger.info("Shutting down " + url + ": " + connection.getResponseMessage());
    } catch (SocketException e) {
        logger.debug("Not running");
        // Okay - the server is not running
    } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}

How can you shut down an embedded jetty instance?

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