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

You mention Tomcat as an example of what you don't want to do, but Tomcat can be run in embedded mode, where it gets started up from inside your application:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/catalina/docs/api/org/apache/catalina/startup/Embedded.html

Saying that, I'd recommend Jetty, it's more light-weight than Tomcat.