Maven Jetty-plugin and IntelliJ IDEA

Scenario: You have a maven project and you want to tie with IntelliJ 9 to make it part of IDE built-in commands instead of using command line interface.

Pre-requisite: Need to read Maven Jetty-Plugin User Guide.

Solution: Here is a skeleton project hierarchy:

You also should have a pom.xml file directly under the project.

Now, open up the IntelliJ. Go to File –> Open Project and choose the pom.xml file to bring the project into Intellij and here how it looks. Notice, Idea has created few extraneous files like .impl, .ipr and .iws.

How to configure Run command?
In the IDEA, go to Run –> Edit Configurations
You see the “Run/Debug Configurations” window. Under Parameters tab choose the directory and set the goal command:

Under Runner tab, set VM Parameters to these: (You may not need to sett all these)

-Xms512m
-Xmx512m
-Dcron.properties="c:\MySDP\cron.properties"
-Dcrowd.properties="C:\Documents
and
Settings\hobee
haq\My
Documents\buildLocal\itrsbenchstock\src\etc\resources\crowd.properties"
-Dlogin.jsp="C:\Documents
and
Settings\hobee
haq\My
Documents\buildLocal\itrsbenchstock\src\webapp\pages\login.jsp"

Application is ready to run by click the play button.

Here is the proof:

How to configure Build?

It should shows the Build option to the IDEA drop down. Choose the Build option and click the play button.

How to configure clean?

How to configure scm bootstrap?

Here is the final configured list looks like:

Hopefully, this post will help me to remember and configure all my future apps with maven jetty-plugin in IntelliJ Idea.