Can someone comment on the performance/usage differences and advantages between deploying GeoServer from a web archive or installing GeoServer with the Windows installer?
I currently have GeoServer deployed in Apache Tomcat is this necessary to install another (GeoServer with the Windows installer)?
geoserver.exe installs GeoServer as a windows service (or optionally as a manually started program) running inside Jetty. geoserver.war is a platform independant war file that needs to be installed into a container server (e.g. tomcat, jboss, jetty etc).
The downside of using the exe installer is that you have to be on a windows machine, you also get less choice of servlet container.
