Deploy java web service without using web server

Question

It is possible to deploy my own created web service to any of PC without installing any web server app eg:tomcat? I want make it like agent/plug-in in any PC. In order to ac

Answer 1

Take a look at Jetty, a very light servlet container

Answer 2

I think Spring web services can be configured to run in a "fake" web server as well - there is a discussion on this on spring web services forum for sure (I needed the same thing, but ended up using a web server due to other issues)

Answer 3

Even lighter than running Jetty you can use the HttpServer built into Java.

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/jre/api/net/httpserver/spec/com/sun/net/httpserver/package-summary.html

You'll need to write your own code for parsing request data but it's certainly doable.

http://blogs.operationaldynamics.com/andrew/software/free-java/sun-secret-webserver.html