Jetty 12 and Lucee 6.2.x - Jakarta

apenhorwood · July 26, 2025, 4:14pm

Anyone using Lucee 6.2.x on Jetty 12? I have used Jetty 8, 9 and 10 in production but Jetty 12 seems to be a new beast. Lucee never deploys. I can’t even serve static content.

OS: Linux and Windows
Java Version: JDK 21.0.8+9
Tomcat Version: n/a
Lucee Version: Lucee 6.2.1.122.jar

Zackster · July 26, 2025, 4:22pm

You’ll need the javax libraries, 6.2 supports Jakarta (i.e. jetty 12) but is still javax based

See the addJavaXjars function around line 237

github.com

lucee/lucee-installer/blob/master/download-latest-java-tomcat.cfm#L237


      
          					directory=arguments.tmpDest;
          				if ( len( local.error ) ) throw local.error;
          				// logger( local.out );
          				break;
          			default:
          				throw "_extract: unsupported format (#arguments.format#)";
          		}
          		return true;
          	};
          
          	function addJavaxJars(jarPath){
          		// tomcat 10+ uses jarkarta but needs the javax servlet jars too
          		logger( "Adding javax jars to [#jarPath#]" );
          		var jars = [
          			"https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/servlet/javax.servlet-api/4.0.1/javax.servlet-api-4.0.1.jar",
          			"https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/servlet/jsp/javax.servlet.jsp-api/2.3.3/javax.servlet.jsp-api-2.3.3.jar",
          			"https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/el/javax.el-api/3.0.0/javax.el-api-3.0.0.jar"
          		];
          
          		for (var jar in jars){
          			logger(chr(9) & jar);

You’ll need to download and add these jars to the jetty lib folder / classpath

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/servlet/javax.servlet-api/4.0.1/javax.servlet-api-4.0.1.jar
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/servlet/jsp/javax.servlet.jsp-api/2.3.3/javax.servlet.jsp-api-2.3.3.jar
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/el/javax.el-api/3.0.0/javax.el-api-3.0.0.jar

Lucee 7 latest snapshots should just work as we switched to Jakarta