I use gradle a lot at work and I believe one discovery that was a true win was discovering how to fake JNDI when using the jettyRun task for local development. Originally googling and searching the documentation didn’t yield anything so I thought I’d write a quick post detailing how to do it in case you’re like me and googling for the same thing.
First off you need to create a jetty-env configuration file and put it somewhere in your project (I prefer src/test/resources). Here’s a sample of one I use that uses H2 for the dataSource:
This uses an already running H2 instance and runs an init script located in src/test/resources for populating the database with some tables. From our gradle script we need to reference the file from the jettyRun task (I also add it to the jettyRunWar task as well).
Finally, to complete this example, we want H2 running before jetty kicks off. So we add the h2 dependency to our build script and run the main method of org.h2.tools.Server.
I’ve created a sample spring MVC 3 project that makes use of all the above for local development. Just clone it and run gradle jettyRun to see it in action!
