Java EE without Application Server
- by deamon
Since EJB 3 we have embeddable EJB containers, JPA implementations can be used without an application server, there is Weld for contexts and dependency injection and so on. Since on many systems is only Tomcat available, I wonder, if Java EE could be used without an application server but with a Servlet container like Tomcat.
What would I have to do to set up an Java environment? What drawbacks do you see?