Can we use Spring container in place of Appserver?

[kumar_iitm]

HI Can we use spring framework in place of an Appserver? as Transactions, Security , load balancing many of the features are handled in Spring, although some of them are commercial.

[wpoitras]

There are many services which you can provide without an application server. Transactions and security are such features. Load balancing is not. You need some sort of program to provide the execution environment. Many web applications can be implemented using only a servlet container + Spring.

[pearl8]

again the answer is it depends. if you need 2pc, xa and such other "advanced" features, then maybe not.

have a look at this

http://www.theserverside.com/news/th...hread_id=39236