The Wicket 1.5 archetype sets up a project to use Jetty 7.5. Quite a lot has changed in Jetty since version 6, and this broke my JNDI config. Here’s how I put things right again.

First of all, the imports have all been moved in 7.x.  Here’s where they landed:

import org.eclipse.jetty.plus.webapp.EnvConfiguration;
import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebInfConfiguration;
import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.Configuration;
import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebXmlConfiguration;

Next, you’ll need a jetty-env.xml.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd">

<Configure id="wac" class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
    <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.EnvEntry">
    <Arg>jdbc/mydatasource</Arg>
    <Arg>
        <New class="com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource">
            <Set name="Url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/mydatabase?characterEncoding=utf8</Set>
            <Set name="User">username</Set>
            <Set name="Password">password</Set>
        </New>
    </Arg>
    </New>
</Configure>

Normally this goes into src/main/webapp/WEB-INF, but you probably don’t want to deploy that with your app in your production war file. So instead I put mine in src/test/jetty/jetty-env.xml. You’ll need to modify your Start.java to tell Jetty to find the relocated config file.

EnvConfiguration envConfiguration = new EnvConfiguration();
URL url = new File("src/test/jetty/jetty-env.xml").toURI().toURL();
envConfiguration.setJettyEnvXml(url);
bb.setConfigurations(new Configuration[]{
    new WebInfConfiguration(),
    envConfiguration,
    new WebXmlConfiguration()
});

I found that I also had to set a couple of environment properties:

System.setProperty("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs",
                   "org.eclipse.jetty.jndi");
System.setProperty("java.naming.factory.initial",
                   "org.eclipse.jetty.jndi.InitialContextFactory");

With this, I can finally access my JNDI datasource happily from Wicket/Jetty.

Update: I’ve created a gist with the full source code.