Running EJB application client inside app server

I have a rather unusual idea. I want to run a single instance of a Java EE application client inside app server, in a similar way that JMS provider is run/embedded "within" the app server, so that it is started and stopped with the app server. Why? To ease deployment and maintenance of a complex distributed Java EE system which has application client as 开发者_运维技巧part of its architecture.

So:

1. There is only one application client on each server where there is app server (Glassfish).
2. I would like to have the application client run in the same start-stop cycle as the application server, and not as a totally separate entity run under a (apache or similar) system service wrapper.

Is this possible?

maybe a custom lifecycle module would do the trick?

To ease deployment and maintenance of a complex distributed Java EE system which has application client as part of its architecture.

I don't get your idea. But if you want to ease the deployment and maintenance, use rather Java Web Start to deploy the client application. This will simplify the deployment issue a lot. This is supported by Glassfish.

See this answer.