This is sample ant build file to create standalone, working directly from CD ROM Tomcat instance. Download Tomcat 5.5.12 and log4j distributions, edit build.properties and run ant. Then simply copy your webapp's war files into newly created tomcat/webapps directory and burn it on CD. Linux/Unix users start Tomcat with start.sh/stop.sh scripts while Windows users use launch.exe/stop.exe programs. Windows launchers are not bullet proof, but recognizes default JDK 1.5 installations. Comments? Email me at miki@ceti.pl