On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Scott Gray wrote:

> Hi Ylan
> 
> OFBiz is deployable as an EAR and the various app server deployment templates 
> in the framework/appserver/ directory facilitate this.
> 
> The main reasons as far as I am aware for using embedded tomcat is as follows:
> -  Simple setup and deployment
> -  Ability to change files on the fly without redeploying
> -  I'm not sure if it is still the case, but there have been issues in the 
> past where the EAR standard doesn't allow for the use of a shared classpath 
> between the OFBiz applications and often requires the use of app server 
> specific EAR extensions
> -  Meets the vast majority of users' needs as is


This makes sense. Thanks.

-- 
Ylan Segal



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