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Hi all,

I have a 5 TCP servers that are tightly knit together and I'm using
Tanukis Software's JavaWrapper to faciliate running the servers as
daemons (on Linux and Windows). For scalability the servers are
distributed over machines - each of the servers are capable of
providing redundancy and load-balancing , so we can run 5 of Server A
and 2 of Server B, etc.. (think of IRCd)

Because each server has its own set of config file: tanukis', log4j,
iBATIS, some custom ones, etc.. it makes deploying these servers a
little bit troublesome and error-prone. I'm thinking of taking the
approach of Servlet Containers like Tomcat to basically act as a
container for deploying the servers (even multiple copies of the
servers). It would be nice to just drop in a war file and have the
server start up (maybe even getting it's config from a central server).

Anyone know of any application servers that can just run the
main(String... args) entry-points of alreayd existing applications? Or
perhaps if provide an interface to implement to start, stop, restart
services?

Now the deployment process is as follows: compile the project, package
it in jars, attach the default config files, upload it to a central
server, turn it into a linux or freebsd package, install the package on
the dest. server, configure it, test it, etc...

I think if I did have to just provide a simple Servlet entry point to
each of the apps (instead of main()) it work but I would have to fix up
the config file loading.

Any thoughts on this?