NullPointerException on vaadinRun about gradle-vaadin-plugin HOT 3 CLOSED

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The task appears to run successfully. It leaves a java process running in the background, and I can successfully connect even though Gradle is dead.

At the moment I'm using jettyRun, and adding the Vaadin dependency to my project manually. Perhaps vaadinRun could just be a synonym for jettyRun? The latter appears to be far more robust.

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You are for some reason getting the NPE when getting the system console just right after jetty was started. That is why jetty is left running even when the gradle task is dead. I'm going to add a check there and kill jetty if that happens in the future so jetty is never left running. If you are running the vaadinRun task from eclipse ensure the "Allocate console" checkbox is checked under the common tab in the run configuration.

vaadinRun used to be a direct alias of the Gradle's jetty plugins jettyRun task. Unfortunatly Gradle packages only Jetty 6 which is not compatible with Servlet 3.0 which many Vaadin applications use. That is why the Vaadin Plugin instead uses Jetty 8 to run the application.

If you are managing the dependencies yourself then you should not use the Gradle jetty plugin, instead you should add the following dependency to your dependencies to be compatible with the Vaadin Plugin:

org.mortbay.jetty:jetty-runner:8.1.5.v20120716

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To add a bit more context, I'm doing all of my development from the
console, so am at a loss as to why this would return null. It works fine
in groovysh.

I wasn't necessarily advocating for an alias of jettyRun, even though
that's what I stated. Sorry for not being clear. The code just seems a
bit more robust, and it looks from studying the task like it's
abstracted out a bit. Could the dependency be tweaked such that the task
uses Jetty 8 by default, or could the code be lifted and changed? I'm
just worried by the fact that this fails on the console and there's no
indication why.

Thanks.

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