Chapter 2: Basic Geronimo Configuration


Overview

With the latest Geronimo version installed and running on your machine, you are ready to try basic configuration and to deploy an application on Geronimo. This chapter provides you with the fundamentals required.

Specifically, this chapter:

  • Shows step by step how to deploy an enterprise Java application on Geronimo. This application will have a very typical component composition: Java Server Pages (JSPs), servlets, and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) on Geronimo.

  • Introduces the basic use of the versatile deployer tool and demonstrates how it will be very useful for daily operation of a Geronimo server.

  • Demonstrates the use of the Web console for deploying applications and monitoring the state of running applications.

  • Describes the types of application and application components that can be deployed on Geronimo.

  • Illustrates Geronimo’s basic component lifecycle model and shows how this relates to the deployment of applications.

  • Discusses both the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specific and vendor-specific plans that are used in Geronimo.

  • Reveals how Geronimo persists deployed applications plus configuration between server restarts and discusses the composition of the Geronimo repository.

  • Shows how to control the set of applications that will be started when Geronimo starts up and shows how to override component configuration attributes that are already persisted during deployment.

The discussion in this chapter enables you to deploy many enterprise applications to Geronimo with the least amount of customization. Meanwhile, the potential for customizing your application deployment is examined, and an overview of the procedures and configuration files involved is presented. This overview provides you with the background required to understand the detailed exploration that follows in the rest of the book.

By the end of this chapter, you will have an understanding of the different enterprise application components that can be deployed on Geronimo. You will know all the steps involved in deploying a typical enterprise application on the server. In addition, you should be comfortable with the myriad of deployment descriptor and plans that can be customized during Geronimo application deployment.




Professional Apache Geronimo
Professional Apache Geronimo (Wrox Professional Guides)
ISBN: 0471785431
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 148

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