Thanks Jason. Very useful.  i-jetty looks quite interesting run as a
service on android and may just be the ticket.

I may also contact the tjws guy see if he is porting to android.

On A/ this is meant for an in-wall device so no issues of power.

Thanks again.
MF
On Nov 5, 7:20 am, Jason <jason.poli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My experience is that Jetty (http://www.mortbay.org/jetty/) tends to
> be a bit more lightweight than tomcat, and also a LOT easier to embed
> (it's basically just a JAR file).
>
> Or you could try this:
>
> http://tjws.sourceforge.net/
>
> Haven't tried it myself, but looks like it's designed to be
> lightweight.
>
> Or.. maybe even better:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/
>
> In either case it's likely to be:
>
> A) A battery killer due to much heavier resource usage than "normal"
> mobile apps
> B) Could be a performance problem if the container itself is
> allocating a lot of objects, and thus causing the GC to kick in.
>
> On Nov 5, 4:51 pm, Miguel Morales <therevolti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > All I gotta ask is, why?  I'd imagine Tomcat is not written to be run
> > in embedded/legacy devices such as an android device.  You'd be
> > wasting a lot of memory and cpu cycles.  I guess if it's a wall
> > mounted device, it might be ok.  But at that point why not just use a
> > PC of sorts and use some linux distribution and use your app as is,
> > why even use Android at all?
>
> > I really don't see a case where this is desirable.
>
> > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Bret Foreman <bret.fore...@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > > I've been looking into this too. We have an industrial embedded
> > > control application that I'd like to run on Android and control from a
> > > remote browser.
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