Embedded containers and standalone Java applications

When you create a Java application, you either choose to deploy within an external servlet container/application container or embed a container into your jar. There are developers who still refuse to use embedded containers, some for fear: feeling that somehow their application is going to crash just because it runs directly from a java -jar command (haha), others, well, I don’t know why someone could not prefer to run their applications using a simple terminal command, but, there are other opinions and other views, this post is not…