title: Deploy play as a war file into a servlet container, even if it uses JPA heavily?
body: <p>I am fairly new to play, in fact i read right at the moment about it, and what should I say...Questions over questions. At the moment I am kickstarting a project which relies on a lot of special java libraries (hibernate-spatial, jts, etc...). Because it also should implement a comprehensive REST API, I had to decide between Django versus classic JavaEE Glassfish app.</p>
  
  <p>But now I think with play I get the best of both worlds and I really would like to dive deeper into this.</p>
  
  <p>One feature of play, I really can't imagine, is to deploy play apps as WAR files even to a simple Servlet Container like tomcat. </p>
  
  <p>So is it right, that if my play app uses a JPA persistance layer based on hibernate/hibernate-spatial still can be deployed as WAR file to a simple tomcat servlet container? Or do I need a JavaEE Application Server at least?</p>
  
  <p>I can't believe it...</p>