The DeployableContainer interface provided by Arquillian offer a simple abstraction over something that you can setup, start or stop. In addition it can support deploy and undeploy.

The same logic can be applied to pure services, e.g. Mail, Database or FTP servers.

The Apache HTTPD server adapter is a DeployableContainer implementation that control the lifecycle of a local Apache HTTP Server. The Adapter support adding additional HTTPD configuration during setup, and rely on calling out to the command line when starting and stopping the server. The Adapter work with both Windows and Linux based systems.