Jetty 7 maven plugin authentication realms

The configuration directive UserRealm seems to no longer work with the jetty 7 maven plugin (jetty-maven-plugin). I received the following error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No LoginService for org.eclipse.jetty.security.authentication.BasicAuthenticator@4095c5ec in ConstraintSecurityHandler@28f52a14@

Fixing this involved:

• Creating a jetty configuration file, such as the following:

  ---

  <?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">
    <Get name="securityHandler">
      <Set name="loginService">
        <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.security.HashLoginService">
          <Set name="name">YourSecurityRealmHere</Set>
          <Set name="config">src/test/resources/jetty-realm.properties</Set>
          <Call name="start"/>
        </New>
      </Set>
      <Set name="checkWelcomeFiles">true</Set>
    </Get>
  </Configure>

  ---

  To be saved as src/test/resources/jetty-test.xml

• Create a src/test/resources/jetty-realm.properties with your Jetty 7 password file.

• Updating the jetty configuration in my pom.xml:
  

        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
          <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>7.0.1.v20091125</version>
          <configuration>
            <webAppXml>src/test/resources/jetty-test.xml</webAppXml>
          </configuration>
          <dependencies>
            <dependency>
              <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
              <artifactId>jetty-servlets</artifactId>
              <version>7.0.1.v20091125</version>
            </dependency>
          </dependencies>
        </plugin>
  

  ---

  The important entry is webAppXML. The extra dependency to jetty-servlets was added to support GZip in Jetty 7.