# High-level overview of Tomcat 5.5 deployment

This topic provides an overview of the steps you need to take to deploy the Discovery Framework as a standalone application on Tomcat 5.5.

Details on each of these steps appear in the topics that follow.

To deploy the Discovery Framework on Tomcat 5.5:

1. Install Tomcat and deploy the Discovery Framework dependency libraries.
2. Modify Tomcat configuration to work with the Discovery Framework.
3. Deploy and start the Discovery Framework application.