Out of curiosity, is it still going to be just a zip file that we drop into a folder and create a batch script to run, or are there prerequisites that will need to be installed?
Yes, same zip file for now. The H2 database is a single 1.6 MB jar file that I put in webapps/root/WEB-INF/lib/. The blocks.nxt and transactions.nxt (and .bak) files will not be needed anymore. Instead, the database is kept under nxt_db subdirectory, currently takes 99 MB (compared to the blocks+transactions.nxt files taking 30 MB total).
Is there like a database server process running that clients could connect to and execute SQL statements?