Jetty – Stop a Jetty Server by Command

Jetty – Stop a Jetty Server by Command

July 26, 2010 Ying Kit Yuen 13 Comments

To start a Jetty Server, you can type the following command.

java -jar start.jar

The only way to stop the Jetty Server is by pressing Ctrl + C in the shell prompt.

Actually, there is a way to issue a stop command to the Jetty Server on another shell prompt. But you have to specify the STOP.PORT and STOP.KEY in the start command as follow.

java -DSTOP.PORT=8080 -DSTOP.KEY=stop_jetty -jar start.jar

After the Jetty Server is started, you can open another shell prompt and stop the Jetty by

java -DSTOP.PORT=8080 -DSTOP.KEY=stop_jetty -jar start.jar --stop