Just a fyi, i've picked up on the recent distributed node changes and API for that and started trying to get the webapp distro working with that. I'd like to get distributed nodes working for both the webapp distro and the Tuscany Geronimo integration so that they can be part of a Tuscany distributed system, starting with the webapp distro as its easier to work with.
If you build distribution/webapp and deploy the war to tomcat it starts up as NodeB for the distributed calculator sample. Right now you still need to run a separate DomainNode, probably better to get that integrated into the webapp somehow, maybe have another web.xml init-param to say if it should run the domain components or not. It doesn't quite work yet, the webapp joins the domain but component invocations fail, i think the url's may be getting calculated incorrectly. ...ant
