title: Tomcat to run a twitter stream monitoring app?
body: <p>I'm a newbie when it comes to Java for web application stuff, so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious.</p>
  
  <p>I'm building an app that uses the Twitter Streaming API and Jtwitter to listen for various tweets, do some database record-keeping, and send out some tweeted replies.  The application has no web component, although there will be a web application (probably .net, maybe grails) for interacting with the recorded data.</p>
  
  <p>Right now my application is in development and runs on Glassfish included Eclipse, but when I deploy it I'm not sure how to approach it.  I was thinking of using Tomcat to auto-load the application as a servlet, but since there's really no web component to this end of it I'm not sure this is the best approach.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>