Take a look at Jetty (http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/ http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/) for the second option. I tend to use 'mvn tomcat:run' to run my dev server,

Take a look at Jetty (http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/ http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/) for the second option. I tend to use 'mvn tomcat:run' to run my dev server, which I find even easier, fwiw.