Sesame is a J2EE application that is contained in a servlet. This is generally deployed using Tomcat, but we are not going to use that or anything bloatware. Instead we will make use of Winstone, a lightweight application server.
Sesame is composed of two servlets. openrdf-sesame that is best served at /openrdf-sesame and that contain the HTTP REST API to the RDF store. Then there is openrdf-workbench (served from /openrdf-workbench) that is the UI to the server. You don't really need the UI but it's nice to get started and explore the server.