I am trying to set up persistent sessions on Jetty 9.2.3 on a linux machine running Java8. I have added jetty-web.xml file to my app under ${jetty.home}/webapps/app/WEB-INF/ with the following content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd">
<Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
<Set name="sessionHandler">
<New class="org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler">
<Arg>
<New class="org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.HashSessionManager">
<Set name="storeDirectory">/var/sessions</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</New>
</Set>
</Configure>
but when I try to start Jetty, I get the following error:
2014-09-29 13:08:12.989:WARN:oejw.JettyWebXmlConfiguration:main: Unable to process jetty-web.xml
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:372)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:360)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoader.java:450)
...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best Answer
Well, it seems like the classpaths in Jetty9 documentation explaining how to setup persistent sessions is simply incorrect. As soon as I changed paths from org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.* to org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.* everything worked like a charm.
The final config looked like this: