VS Code Supports Java-Based Eclipse Jetty Web Server -- Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Supports Java-Based Eclipse Jetty Web Server

By David Ramel
05/03/2018

A new extension announced by the Visual Studio Code team provides support for Eclipse Jetty, a Java-based Web server and servlet container.

Its Web site explains "Eclipse Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers and clusters."

The VS Code team said it eases the running and deployment of WAR (Web Application aRchive packages), operation of Jetty servers, and interactions with applications from within the code editor.

The extension helps developers:

Add Jetty Server from download directory
Start/Restart/Stop/Delete Jetty Server
Run WAR packages
Debug WAR packages
Delete WAR packages
Reveal WAR packages in file explorer
Open server homepage
Open WAR package homepage

It requires the use of Jetty Server and Debugger for Java.

Published by Microsoft's "Summer Sun," the extension has 767 installations as of this writing. Its code is also parked on GitHub.

The Visual Studio Engineering Team also announced new enhancements for aforementioned Debugger for Java, Java Test Runner, Tomcat and Maven extensions.

About the Author

David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.

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