I've been working on a small project and I want to see what you guys think of it. It's a jar file that uses the embedded API and allows you to launch a war based webapp into Tomcat with a simple `java -jar tomcat-runner.jar myApp.war`. I took inspiration from Jetty's Jetty-Runner ( http://blogs.webtide.com/janb/entry/jetty_runner) and wanted to have that ease of use with Tomcat.
You can check out the code and usage here: https://github.com/jsimone/tomcat-runner The command line options are limited now, but my idea is that they'd be expanded to cover most, if not all, of what the embedded API offers.