What are the design decisions involved in choosing how to expose a Java web application?

Posted by Gary Rowe on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Gary Rowe
Published on 2012-04-10T14:30:49Z Indexed on 2012/04/10 17:45 UTC
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There are many ways to expose a Java web application to the consumer: application container (JBoss etc), servlet container (Tomcat etc), OSGi (Knopflerfish etc), self-executable WAR (Winstone etc) and so on. Are there any clear considerations where one approach should be favoured over another?

As an example, could a collection of self-executable WARs running as raw Unix processes outperform the same applications deployed within Tomcat taking into account administration and scalability concerns?

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