Advantages: Easy to get a server running: just install tomcat or jetty on your production machine, sftp the war file and it automatically deploys. Init.d scri

Advantages: Easy to get a server running: just install tomcat or jetty on your production machine, sftp the war file and it automatically deploys. Init.d scripts are tricky to write and get right, by using a tested script from a distro things tend to work out of the box. Monitoring -- easy to hook in some monitoring script that can reboot tomcat or jetty should the server stop responding. Techops generally know how to deploy a .war file -- I would not feel comfortable telling someone to learn lisp just to deploy a webapp. pretty interesting with swank -- need to look into that.