Standalone Java Webapp made easy with Maven
Introduction As you may already know, creating a war archive and deploying it on a preinstalled Servlet Container is not the only way running a Java webapp, since you can also embed the Web-Server in the application itself. Sometimes such artifacts are delivered as standalone executable programs that can be easily started and stopped in the commandline and even run as a service in the background. Maybe you should also consider producing your app this way and benefit from its huge advantages: No preinstalled Webserver/Servlet Container required that would take additional maintenance. Easy Cross-Platform. Same artifact can of course be run on any System. Complete Standalone Software Apache Sonar is a great Example of such Software. It uses an embedded Jetty Server and creates an embedded H2 Database for persistence that can be replaced in configuration. As you can see here they prepared startup scripts for any Platform that execute the actual StartServer class. Embedded Tomcat In my t...
