Advantages
- Simple fast deployment - a single jar file is often all that's needed, which can be started from the command line with something as simple as "java -jar winstone.jar
" - A focus on decomposability. That is, it has been designed in a way that if you don't need a certain feature of the servlet specification (e.g. authentication, cluster support, servlet reloading or JSPs), it is possible to remove the package corresponding to that feature from the winstone jar file, and the feature will be disabled. This can help in embedded environments, where size is at a premium.
- Size and speed: winstone has a lot less code than other containers, so it starts faster and doesn't have any problems running on older hardware. It also supports J2SE v1.2 JVMs if you supply an XML parser.
- From v0.7, winstone allows the user to define their own web application classloader class. This is extremely useful for Aspect Oriented Programming, as it allows runtime modifications to web application code without precompilation or a special JVM.
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