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Jetty™ (default)
eXist ships with the Jetty Java web application server. This can be used with very
little effort and is the recommended approach, as it is well understood and sup‐
ported by the eXist community and developers. See “Starting and Stopping eXist
with a GUI” on page 23 .
WAR file and third-party Java web application server
eXist can be built and deployed as a WAR file to your choice of Java web applica‐
tion server (e.g., Apache Tomcat , GlassFish , JBoss Application Server , etc.). This
can work well if your organization is already heavily invested in a particular tech‐
nology. However, it is recommended that you run eXist solely in its own web
application server; otherwise, it will potentially be competing for resources with
other applications in the same server. See “Building eXist from Source” on page
485 .
Either way—whether you use the built-in Jetty or a third-party Java web application
server—the web application platform architecture of eXist remains much the same
(see Figure 4-5 ).
Figure 4-5. eXist web application platform architecture