Web Services, Messaging, and Logging
If you need web services (SOAP and/or REST) in your project, I recommend the
Apache CXF framework. It comes with Spring integration out of the box. Refer to their documentation for details.
If you need message-driven POJOs in your app, I recommend you integrate Apache ActiveMQ. It too is Spring-enabled out of the box. The Spring messaging documentation has ample examples of how to post and consume messages using message-driven POJOs
If you want to use Log4J in your projects, just add the Apache Log4J libraries to the main server and place the standard log4j.properties file in the server's /etc folder.
Jetty Deployment Options
I hope this article has provided you a path out of the nightmare that is J2EE development and provided a good start to any new projects you may be launching. Enterprise Java development does not need to be heavyweight and Ant-driven; with embedded Jetty and Spring, it can be lean, mean, fast, and—above all—productive. You just need to choose the best combination of available open source tools and libraries to make it happen.
Although you used embedded Jetty for development in the example presented here, nothing is stopping you from compiling your application project (i.e., MyApp in the example) as a typical WAR and deploying it to a standalone Jetty installation for the QA/integration phase of your project. You can still reap the benefits of embedded Jetty during your day-to-day development.
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