Hello, So I had the idea that I would like to deploy my application with Tomcat 'built in'. The goal is to just consolodate everything into one spot instead of scattering components all over the system. I keep reading about how Tomcat is 'embeddable', but I'm just not understanding something. I find several code samples about how to start up Tomcat from Java code using the 'Embedded' class, but I don't see what the file structure would look like if it were embedded. I keep reading that you need to deploy your app as a WAR in embedded Tomcat... but isn't this embedding your app inside of Tomcat instead of embedding Tomcat in your app?
In other words, it just seems as if people are just packaging their app into a WAR, distributing full blown tomcat (in its default directory structure), then starting up Tomcat from a custom Java class instead of using the default startup options. Am I wrong? If not, then how is that considered embedded? If I am wrong, then could somebody show me a sample dir/file structure of an embedded Tomcat? Like I would expect to see Tomcat jars in their app's own lib directory, a way to point Tomcat to their own context.xml file in their project's file structure, etc. Any pointers to clear my head would be much appreciated! Thanks
