Is there any easy way to produce an executable WAR file, which embeds Apache TomEE? Apache Tomcat Maven plugin makes this trivial - http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.2/executable-war-jar.html
It is extremely convenient to be able to bundle up a single JAR file which contains everything required to just java -jar <jar> and have it initialize Apache TomEE and execute the embedded web application.