Launching a standalone Jetty to run whatever...

StandaloneServer.java

package com.wcg.product.ajax.ajaxserver.connectors;

import java.net.URL;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
import org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration;

public class StandaloneServer {

	private static Server server;

	public static void main(String[] arguments) {
		if (arguments == null || arguments.length == 0
				|| StringUtils.isEmpty(arguments[0])) {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException(
					"URL for the jetty.xml file must be provided");
		}
		String config = arguments[0].trim();
		server = new Server();
		System.out.println(config);
		XmlConfiguration configuration;
		try {
			configuration = new XmlConfiguration(new URL(config));
			configuration.configure(server);
			server.start();
			System.out.println("server started------------------------------------------------------");
			System.out.println(server.dump());
			server.join();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public static void stop() {
		try {
			server.stop();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}