GShell Commands Structure 
Build-in commands like set, clean, help, quit and so on are defined in gshell-builtin project
Geronimo commands like start-server,stop-server adn deploy commands like start-module are defined in geronimo-commands project.
Jaxws commands are defined in geronimo-jaxws-builder project.
Remote commands are defined in gshell-remote-client project.
GShell Startup progress 
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1 org.codehaus.plexus.ClassLoader load every jar defined in etc/gsh-classworlds.conf 2 org.apache.geronimo.gshell.plugin.CommandDiscoverer load the commands.xml in gshell-builtin.jar/META-INF/gshell 3 All the commands register in org.apache.geronimo.gshell.registry..CommandRegistry. 4 The same process for geronimo-commands and jaws-commands 5 org.apache.geronimo.gshell.layout.loader.XMLLayoutLoader load the layout.xml in etc/layout.xml 6 GShell start up DefaultLayoutManager. 7 GShell start up org.apache.geronimo.gshell.DefaultCommandLineBuilder and DefaultCommandExecutor 8 Gshell read argument from console and read history from Document and Setting/\[username\]/.gshell/gshell.history 9 Finish initialization and waiting |
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