[java] Jetty: HTTP ERROR: 503/ Service Unavailable

I'm new to Jetty, I tried to run the sample program here "http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/128145/Run-Jetty-Web-Server-Within-Your-Application" but I got error message on my page "http://localhost:8585/runJetty/"

"HTTP ERROR: 503
Problem accessing /runJetty/. Reason: 
    Service Unavailable
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Powered by Jetty:// "

Error log I get from eclipse:

2012-04-20 11:14:32.522:INFO:oejs.Server:jetty-8.1.3.v20120416
2012-04-20 11:14:32.617:WARN:oejx.XmlParser:FATAL@file:/C:/Users/***/workspace/Test/WEB-INF/web.xml line:1 col:7 : org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
2012-04-20 11:14:32.617:WARN:oejw.WebAppContext:Failed startup of context o.e.j.w.WebAppContext{/runJetty,file:/C:/Users/***/workspace/Test/}
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanPIData(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanPIData(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanPI(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlParser.parse(XmlParser.java:199)
at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlParser.parse(XmlParser.java:215)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.Descriptor.parse(Descriptor.java:60)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebDescriptor.parse(WebDescriptor.java:143)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.MetaData.setWebXml(MetaData.java:165)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebXmlConfiguration.preConfigure(WebXmlConfiguration.java:55)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.preConfigure(WebAppContext.java:417)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:453)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:59)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:224)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:167)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:59)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:90)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:262)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:59)
at blog.runjetty.server.JettyServer.start(JettyServer.java:22)
at blog.runjetty.ui.listener.ServerStartStopActionListner.actionPerformed(ServerStartStopActionListner.java:38)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
2012-04-20 11:14:32.648:INFO:oejs.AbstractConnector:Started [email protected]:8585

My xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" 
version="2.4">
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>page/index.jsp</welcome-file> 
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app> 

My JSP file

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01     Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html> 
    <head> 
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
        <title>Embedding Jetty</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h2>Running Jetty web server from our application!!</h2>
    </body>
</html>  

This question is related to java xml jetty

The answer is


I had the same problem. I solved it by removing the line break from the xml file. I did

<operationBindings>
    <OperationBinding>
        <operationType>update</operationType>
        <operationId>makePdf</operationId>
        <serverObject>
            <className>com.myclass</className>
            <lookupStyle>new</lookupStyle>
        </serverObject>
        <serverMethod>makePdf</serverMethod>
    </OperationBinding>
</operationBindings>

instead of ...

<serverObject>
            <className>com.myclass
</className>
            <lookupStyle>new</lookupStyle>
</serverObject>

None of these answers worked for me.

I had to remove all deployed java web app:

  • Windows/Show View/Other...
  • Go the the Server folder and select "Servers"
  • Right-click on the J2EE Preview at localhost
  • Click to Add and Remove... Click Remove all

Then run the project on the server

The Error is gone!

You will have to stop the server before deploying another project because it will not be found by the server. Otherwise you will get a 404 error


2012-04-20 11:14:32.617:WARN:oejx.XmlParser:FATAL@file:/C:/Users/***/workspace/Test/WEB-INF/web.xml line:1 col:7 : org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.

You Log says, that you web.xml is malformed. Line 1, colum 7. It may be a UTF-8 Byte-Order-Marker

Try to verify, that your xml is wellformed and does not have a BOM. Java doesn't use BOMs.


Remove/Delete the project from workspace. and Reimport the project to the workspace. This method worked for me.