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OpenESB standalone mode or OpenESB SE is a complete distribution of OpenESB that runs in a simple JVM. Not any container is required to run OpenESB SE (Standard Standalone Edition).
OpenESB has been developed to be a very light but reliable and powerful version of OpenESB. OpenESB Core (OpenESB bus and management framework) require less than 100 Mb and starts in less than 5 seconds. OpenESB share its source code with the other versions of OpenESB. So you can develop and deploy your projects on OpenESB SE in the same way than you do on the other platforms.
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