Enabling request Log in Embedded Jetty

You can enable NCSA logging in Jetty so that it starts logging every request that enters Jetty with request details like this. It can be very useful for debugging sometimes. 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Apr/2012:15:44:19 +0000] "GET /ManageContact/rest/contact HTTP/1.1" 200 471 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.152 Safari/535.19" 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Apr/2012:15:44:21 +0000] "GET /ManageContact/rest/contact HTTP/1.1" 200 471 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.152 Safari/535.19" 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Apr/2012:15:44:26 +0000] "GET /ManageContact/rest/contact HTTP/1.1" 200 276 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.152 Safari/535.19" You can use following plugin configuration to enable the NCSA logging

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>7.4.5.v20110725</version>
  <configuration>
    <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
    <webAppConfig>
      <contextPath>/ManageContact</contextPath>
    </webAppConfig> <!-- <loginServices> <loginService implementation="org.eclipse.jetty.security.HashLoginService"> 
      <name>Test Realm</name> <config>${basedir}/src/etc/realm.properties</config> 
      </loginService> </loginServices> -->
    <connectors>
      <connector implementation="org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
        <port>9000</port>
        <maxIdleTime>60000</maxIdleTime>
      </connector>
    </connectors>
 
    <requestLog implementation="org.eclipse.jetty.server.NCSARequestLog">
      <filename>target/yyyy_mm_dd.request.log</filename>
      <retainDays>90</retainDays>
      <append>true</append>
      <extended>true</extended>
      <logTimeZone>GMT</logTimeZone>
    </requestLog>
 
  </configuration>
</plugin>

After this start the Jetty server and when you hit the service you will notice that a .log file gets created in the target directory with one entry for every request.