Jetty with self-extracting WAR from Launch4J EXE

In my previous post I was hacking Tomcat and Jetty with Launch4J - Jetty eventually won as it was willing to read JAR as WAR (not so picky about file extension as Tomcat was) and find WEB-INF/web.xml there without problems. Yesterday I decided to go on with my quest and populate temporary WAR directory from my …

Launch4j and embedded web container

Embedded web container is nice. Of course you’ll lose some benefits of a big container, but you’ll get something else. Sometimes it’s faster startup. And sometimes it’s ability to wrap your Java web application into executable. In our system we have multiple modules and most of them are executables on Windows machine (not my preference …