gradle application plugin got shutdown - plugins

Question

I am using gradle application plugin to run my application. Below is my build.gradle:
group 'demo.jersey'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
apply plugin: 'groovy'
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'application'
sourceCompatibility = 1.5
mainClassName = "com.example.Main"
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.3.11'
compile 'org.glassfish.jersey.containers:jersey-container-grizzly2-http:2.22.1'
testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.11'
}
When I run gradle run, I can see my application is launched but it got shutdown immediately. Below is my Main class. Do you know how to block the application without shutting down?
package com.example;
import org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServer;
import org.glassfish.jersey.grizzly2.httpserver.GrizzlyHttpServerFactory;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
public class Main {
public static final String BASE_URI = "http://localhost:8080/myapp/";
public static HttpServer startServer() {
final ResourceConfig rc = new ResourceConfig().packages("com.example");
return GrizzlyHttpServerFactory.createHttpServer(URI.create(BASE_URI), rc);
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
final HttpServer server = startServer();
System.out.println(String.format("Jersey app started with WADL available at "
+ "%sapplication.wadl\nHit enter to stop it...", BASE_URI));
System.in.read();
server.stop();
}
}

Answer 1

It stops because you invoke server.stop(); explicitly so the program finishes. Comment out this line and it will keep on running and listening for incoming requests.