[jshen]

You lost me. How does embedding the app server break URIs?

[haddr]

in the embedded mode you have one application server per app, so you have one app at port 80, another at 81, etc... so you can't just have a nice URL pattern for your applications, becase each one will have different port number. Unless you set up additional reverse proxy...

[jshen]

you put nginx in front of it, which you should do anyways for most things.

[jebblue]

Yep agreed, it's called reverse proxying, I do this with Tomcat as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy