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The repository is shared, and contains lots of basic and important libraries are required to bootstrap server. It is possible to configure second repositories, one fore for each instance. See Configuring multiple Repositories.

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These are also read-write but are not part of the minimally necessary directories and files for running a Geronimo instance, but may be desired. The deploy directory and repository directories will be automatically created when you start Geronimo if it does not already exist.

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The bin, lib and schema directories are read-only, and thus are shared between instances. The repository is not also shared, which means that an application deployed in one instance will only show up in the list of deployed modules of the deployed instancefor all instances. Thus the second repository for each instance should be desired.

Creating a new server instance

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