Understanding how the alfresco community war file fits in.

[vinny12]

I am very new to not only Alfresco how how CMS works. I want to understand why we would need to deploy the war file in JBOSS when, if I understand well Alfresco has its own Application server.
When we do deploy the war file in JBoss, how then will the CMS manage content since it is itself a war file in JBOSS.
If anyone can explain everything about how the architecture fits into place when it comes to the war file and CMS functionality.

[kevinr]

Alfresco is not an application server - it must be deployed into one, but even a simple servlet container such as TomCat is sufficient.

Guides to installing to various app servers can be found here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Server_Installation

Thanks,

Kevin