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Building and Running from Command-Line

The pom.xml file is a basic Maven build script for creating your microservice as an executable uber-jar. The easiest way to build your microservice is to run the following from the project root.

mvn clean install

Your target directory should now contain the following files:

  • my-jetty-microservice-1.0.jar
  • mjm.cfg

To start from a command line, run the following command from inside your target directory:

java -jar my-jetty-microservice-1.0.jar

You should see the following console output:

Running class 'JettyMicroservice' using config file 'mjm.cfg'.
Server started on port 10000

List of available commands:
    exit -- Shut down service
    restart -- Restarts service
    help -- Commands help

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If you get this error message: java.net.BindException: Address already in use, then this microservice is already running elsewhere and so it cannot bind to port 10000.