Hello, I would like to deploy Tomcat bundled with a few applications (both
webapps and non-web applications). Preferably, this would all be stored in
one file (be it a jar, ear, or any other format), and upon decompressing, I
could simply run a script that would activate the server, load the
That is pretty much what i do, but I recommend that you adopt an overlay
approach. It will make it easy for you to take new versions of Tomcat when they
are available.
Here is how I currently deploy to Solaris.
(1) I use a blessed tomcat distribution from
