[gristj]

It would be very useful to have some sort of ultra-light test and deployment capability for projects requiring a small footprint and having relatively low complexity. Integration with a very simple application server such as Winstone http://winstone.sourceforge.net/ would be one way to achieve this. Ideally it would be possible to repack the developed code and the applications server into one jar for easy deployment. In addition the small footprint and rapid start up would make a very effective development platform for a number of solutions. Consider the advantages of sftp’ing a jar onto a target platform and just issuing

java -jar mywebapp.jar --port=1234

To have a fully working lightweight web application – especially useful for developing and deploying test application for testing client code.

[Riyad Kalla]

Already on our TODO list for a release very soon, but I don’t think we had looked at Winstone, thanks for the heads up.

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