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Chris Biscardi

Clojure Compojure Jetty Integration

If you want to deploy a Clojure/Compojure application you’re going to need a couple hints.

First, in project.clj you’re going to need to add an item to :dependencies and :main.

I have some extra dependencies such as hiccup that aren’t strictly necessary. The ring/ring-jetty-adapter is most important.

under :main write the name of the module that has your (defroutes), we’re going to add a -main function to the same file.

clojure
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.4.0"]
[compojure "1.1.5"]
[ring/ring-jetty-adapter "1.2.0-beta1"]
[hiccup "1.0.2"]]
:main projectname.handler

Now in projectname.handler add :gen-class and ring.adapter.jetty to (use).

Lower in the same file, include a new function called -main. This is the function java will call to start the server.

In this case my defroutes was named app-routes so that’s what goes after run-jetty.

clojure
(ns projectname.handler
(:gen-class)
(:use [compojure.core]
[ring.adapter.jetty]
[hiccup.core]))
(defroutes app-routes
(GET "/" [] g/show-home)
(route/resources "/")
(route/not-found "Not Found"))
(defn -main [& args]
(run-jetty (handler/site app-routes) {:port 5000}))

That’s it. You should be able to

bash
lein compile
lein uberjar
java -jar target/whatever-STANDALONE.jar