I knocked this up to help testing on something I’ve been working on in my spare time. It would be a trivial exercise to extend this to build pages for specific URLs – this example returns the same markup for any example. The old codehaus site for Jetty contain lots of examples of how to configure an embedded server.

import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Handler
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse
import scala.xml.Elem

class HttpServer {

  val handler = new MutableHandler()

  def run(port: Int) = {
    val server = new Server(port)
    server.setHandler(handler)
    server.start()
  }

  def updateHtml(html: Elem) = {
    handler.html = html
  }
}

protected class MutableHandler extends AbstractHandler {
  var html = <h1>Hello</h1>

  override def handle(target: String, request: HttpServletRequest, response: HttpServletResponse) = {
    response.setContentType("text/html");
    response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
    response.getWriter().println(html.toString());
    (request.asInstanceOf[Request]).setHandled(true);
  }
}