diff --git a/TASMAN-embedded/pom.xml b/TASMAN-embedded/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce0eb8b0eac058c64c45b741dd6f6b4a9a99bc56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TASMAN-embedded/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    
+    <groupId>it.inaf.ia2.tap</groupId>
+    <artifactId>tasman-embedded</artifactId>
+    <version>1.2.0</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
+        <jetty.version>9.4.6.v20170531</jetty.version>
+    </properties>
+    
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
+            <version>${jetty.version}</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jetty-webapp</artifactId>
+            <version>${jetty.version}</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
+            <artifactId>apache-jsp</artifactId>
+            <version>${jetty.version}</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+    
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.0.2</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <archive>
+                        <manifest>
+                            <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
+                            <mainClass>it.inaf.ia2.tap.tasman.Main</mainClass>
+                        </manifest>
+                    </archive>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.0.0</version>                
+                <configuration>
+                    <archive>
+                        <manifest>
+                            <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
+                            <mainClass>it.inaf.ia2.tap.tasman.Main</mainClass>
+                        </manifest>
+                    </archive>
+                    <descriptorRefs>
+                        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
+                    </descriptorRefs>
+                    <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
+                    <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>create-my-bundle</id>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>single</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/TASMAN-embedded/src/main/java/it/inaf/ia2/tap/tasman/Main.java b/TASMAN-embedded/src/main/java/it/inaf/ia2/tap/tasman/Main.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..759ba1ecf5a157817f6f9869aa94eb2906092673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TASMAN-embedded/src/main/java/it/inaf/ia2/tap/tasman/Main.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package it.inaf.ia2.tap.tasman;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author Sonia Zorba {@literal <zorba at oats.inaf.it>}
+ */
+public class Main {
+
+    /**
+     * @param args the command line arguments
+     */
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        Server server = new Server(2500);
+
+        WebAppContext webapp = new WebAppContext();
+        webapp.setContextPath("/");
+        File warFile = new File("/home/sonia/git/TASMAN/TASMAN-webapp/target/tasman-webapp-1.2.0.war");
+        webapp.setWar(warFile.getAbsolutePath());
+
+        // https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=477705
+        //https://docs.jboss.org/weld/reference/latest/en-US/html/environments.html#_jetty
+        webapp.prependServerClass("-org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler");
+        webapp.prependServerClass("-org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder");
+        webapp.prependServerClass("-org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler");
+        webapp.prependServerClass("-org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder");
+
+        server.setHandler(webapp);
+
+        server.start();
+        server.dumpStdErr();
+
+        // The use of server.join() the will make the current thread join and
+        // wait until the server is done executing.
+        server.join();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/TASMAN-webapp/pom.xml b/TASMAN-webapp/pom.xml
index 9038a6816e8e76d65def5140710242cabff9c484..7c6bdff97b149e43cede5ee20a42521053345af8 100644
--- a/TASMAN-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/TASMAN-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -15,28 +15,36 @@
         <netbeans.hint.license>inaf-license-netbeans</netbeans.hint.license>
         <jersey.version>2.23.2</jersey.version>
         <deltaspike.version>1.7.2</deltaspike.version>
-    </properties>    
+        <enable.weld.config.start></enable.weld.config.start>
+        <enable.weld.config.end></enable.weld.config.end>
+        <enable.jetty.config.start></enable.jetty.config.start>
+        <enable.jetty.config.end></enable.jetty.config.end>
+    </properties>
         
     <profiles>    
         <profile>
-            <id>GlassFish</id>
+            <id>FullEE</id>
             <activation>
                 <property>
                     <name>environment</name>
-                    <value>GlassFish</value>
+                    <value>FullEE</value>
                 </property>
                 <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
             </activation>
         </profile>
         
         <profile>
-            <id>Tomcat</id>
+            <id>ServletContainer</id>
             <activation>
                 <property>
                     <name>environment</name>
-                    <value>Tomcat</value>
+                    <value>ServletContainer</value>
                 </property>
             </activation>
+            <properties>                
+                <enable.weld.config.start>&lt;!-- </enable.weld.config.start>
+                <enable.weld.config.end> --&gt;</enable.weld.config.end>
+            </properties>
             <dependencies>
                 <dependency>
                     <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
@@ -82,6 +90,20 @@
                 </dependency>
             </dependencies>
         </profile>
+        <profile>
+            <id>Jetty</id>
+            <!-- for Jetty use both this and the ServletContainer profile -->
+            <activation>
+                <property>
+                    <name>environment</name>
+                    <value>Jetty</value>
+                </property>
+            </activation>
+            <properties>
+                <enable.jetty.config.start>&lt;!-- </enable.jetty.config.start>
+                <enable.jetty.config.end> --&gt;</enable.jetty.config.end>
+            </properties>
+        </profile>
     </profiles>
     
     <dependencies>
@@ -180,6 +202,7 @@
     
     <build>
         <resources>
+            <!-- Include version.txt and filter it -->
             <resource>
                 <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
                 <filtering>true</filtering>
@@ -187,6 +210,7 @@
                     <include>**/version.txt</include>
                 </includes>
             </resource>
+            <!-- Include all other files without filtering them -->
             <resource>
                 <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
                 <filtering>false</filtering>
@@ -215,12 +239,21 @@
                 <configuration>
                     <attachClasses>true</attachClasses>
                     <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
+                    <webResources> 
+                        <resource>
+                            <directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
+                            <filtering>true</filtering>
+                            <includes>
+                                <include>**/web.xml</include>
+                            </includes>
+                        </resource>
+                    </webResources>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.6</version>
+                <version>2.8</version>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
                         <phase>validate</phase>
diff --git a/TASMAN-webapp/src/main/java/it/inaf/ia2/tsm/webapp/ConfigurationManager.java b/TASMAN-webapp/src/main/java/it/inaf/ia2/tsm/webapp/ConfigurationManager.java
index 7e3a8f9fd5effce2c71114fd931a729152f18092..7754a94ed087a04d2ad79c73c3b6c7ed1990a9c0 100644
--- a/TASMAN-webapp/src/main/java/it/inaf/ia2/tsm/webapp/ConfigurationManager.java
+++ b/TASMAN-webapp/src/main/java/it/inaf/ia2/tsm/webapp/ConfigurationManager.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class ConfigurationManager {
     public void init() {
         try {
             Properties prop = new Properties();
-            try (InputStream in = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("webapp.properties")) {
+            try (InputStream in = ConfigurationManager.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("webapp.properties")) {
                 prop.load(in);
             }
             configDirectory = new File(prop.getProperty("config_directory"));
diff --git a/TASMAN-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/TASMAN-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 6e31eb67d70921005c524ffee477778f0686f1d6..cb584df0722e5c7b2d6f3a767874fbc0943abbc4 100644
--- a/TASMAN-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/TASMAN-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -69,4 +69,33 @@
         <exception-type>javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException</exception-type>
         <location>/faces/expired.xhtml</location>
     </error-page>
+    
+    <!--
+    ########################################################################
+    # WELD configuration: necessary for Tomcat and Jetty.                  #
+    # Following section will be automatically decommented by Maven profile #
+    ########################################################################
+    -->
+    <!-- ${enable.weld.config.end}
+    <resource-env-ref>
+        <resource-env-ref-name>BeanManager</resource-env-ref-name>
+        <resource-env-ref-type>javax.enterprise.inject.spi.BeanManager</resource-env-ref-type>
+    </resource-env-ref>
+    <listener> 
+        <listener-class>org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.Listener</listener-class> 
+    </listener>
+    ${enable.weld.config.start} -->
+    
+    <!--
+    ##################################################################################
+    # JSF com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener configuration: necessary for Jetty. #
+    # See: https://stackoverflow.com/q/7886035/771431                                #
+    # Following section will be automatically decommented by Maven profile           #
+    ##################################################################################
+    -->
+    <!-- ${enable.jetty.config.end}
+    <listener>
+        <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
+    </listener>
+    ${enable.jetty.config.start} -->
 </web-app>