Fastest way to deploy and run a Java WAR file?

Question

Is there a simple, programmatic way to quickly "deploy" and run a standard Java WAR file for local testing without having to install and configure external software packages like Tomcat or Jetty? Ideally something like Jetty's embeddable features but specifically for WAR files.

Java 6 provides the convenient Endpoint class which makes it easy to quickly deploy and test web services, is there something similar for WAR files? For example:

AppServer as = new javax.iwish.AppServer("localhost", 8080);
as.deploy("/", new File("path/to/my.war");
as.start();

Answer 1

I asked too soon, it looks like Jetty does exactly what I need:

Server server = new Server(8080);
server.setHandler(new WebAppContext("foo.war", "/"));
server.start();

Remarkably close to my dreamed up API =D