Summary

In this chapter, you have successfully installed and tested Geronimo on your own system.

At the official Geronimo Web site, a variety of builds and releases of Geronimo may be available for downloading. The latest builds can be useful for accessing the latest features or bug fixes. However, production purposes, you should stick with official releases.

Geronimo can run on almost any modern machine, including x86 machines running Windows or Unix, or Linux of many flavors. Mac OSX, and Sun Solaris also support the server. You must use SUN’s JDK 1.4.2 i JVM for Geronimo if you need CORBA support. Otherwise, Geronimo works great on JDK 5 (Java SE 5).

Geronimo installation on both Windows and Unix machine can be as simple as unarchiving the binary distribution to a directory of your choice. In Chapter 2, you will see how easy it is to deploy an enterprise application to your working Geronimo server.