Appendix A 3.6.1 Configuring an Override web.xml for Jetty Standalone
There is an example of applying an override web.xml file in $jetty.home/contexts/test.xml. To apply an override to a single webapp:
<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
...
<Set name="overrideDescriptor"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home"
default="."/>/my/path/to/override-web.xml</Set>
...
</Configure>In code, this is:
import org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext;
...
WebAppContext wac = new WebAppContext();
...
//Set the absolute path to the override descriptor.
//Alternatively, use the classloader to get the path to the
//override descriptor as a resource.
wac.setOverrideDescriptor(System.getProperty("jetty.home")
+"/my/path/to/override-web.xml");