Java / Thread Server Application Server

Question

I am looking for something very close to an application server with these features:

• it should handle a series of threads / daemons, allowing the user to start-stop-restart each, without affecting the others.
• it must support libraries shared between different threads / daemons
• it should allow some libraries to be shared

We currently have some kind of legacy code inventing the wheel ... and that doesn't have a flawless round shape! I was thinking of using Tomcat, but I don't need a web server, except maybe for the simple backoffice user interface (/ manager / html).

Any suggestion? Is there a non-web application server, or is there a better alternative to Tomcat (lighter, for example, or easier to configure)? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can consider Spring dmServer . This is a rather unconventional application server with a very light OSGi kernel (for example, a web container is optional), but it provides you with class unloading and basic container services. It is not a JavaEE container, but comes with plugins.

You will have to do a lot of work on your own, but the dmServer basics are very solid.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

No one is stopping you from sending binary and text data instead of HTML pages using the http protocol. What servlets are for. So I would use a tomcat server.