The fastest way to deploy and run Java war files?

Is there a simple programming way to quickly "deploy" and run standard Java war files for local testing without installing and configuring external packages such as Tomcat or jetty? Ideally, jetty's embeddable functionality, but specifically for war files

Java 6 provides a convenient endpoint class, which can easily and quickly deploy and test web services. Is there anything similar to war files? For example:

AppServer as = new javax.iwish.AppServer("localhost",8080);
as.deploy("/",new File("path/to/my.war");
as.start();

Solution

I asked too early. It looks like jetty does exactly what I need:

Server server = new Server(8080);
server.setHandler(new WebAppContext("foo.war","/"));
server.start();

Very close to my dream API = D