The hardship comes in having to modify the tomcat install. With MC you only had to a jar in your WEB-INF/lib. anonymous wrote : | * While you only want the JTA, JNDI, and connection pooling support. Other users might want JMS, EJB3, JMS, JCA, Security, and/or remoting support. You can easily fine tune embedded container to not use one of these subsystems. | I agree with you on this. If I did want all of those services, why wouldn't I install a full EE server? No to mention you can not cluster Embedded JBoss View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4057050#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...