The website says that the standalone server [1] is a convenience package, and it recommends using the jackrabbit-webapp package instead. From what I can tell, the standalone server is using the jackrabbit-webapp itself. I'm remoting the repository with the jcr2spi + spi2davex packages. It what ways would the standalone server be less capable than the jackrabbit-webapp deployed on it's own?
1) http://jackrabbit.apache.org/standalone-server.html