25. Tomcat Deployment

Besides full-blown Java EE application servers, many developers want a simpler way to deploy applications on “lightweight” servers such as the Tomcat web server. In this chapter, we discuss how to run Seam applications on plain Tomcat servers. The approach is to use the JBoss MicroContainer to bootstrap necessary services from your own application, much like the Spring framework does for service wiring.

JBoss MicroContainer Is Key for Service Bootstrapping

The JBoss MicroContainer (http://www.jboss.com/products/jbossmc) is an XML-based dependency injection framework at the core of the JBoss application server. It can also be used as a stand-alone framework. Hence, we can use the JBoss MicroContainer to load dependency ...

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