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Plugins can be system modules, applications, classloader definitions, and plugin groups. The WASCE Geronimo server is assemblages of plugins. Assemblies are the different ways you can create a server out of the various pluging available. Starting with Geronimo 2.1 and 2.2, the servers are assembled entirely out of plugins.
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- Your local maven repository if you have built geronimo or used maven to package plugins.
- The apache Apache plugin repository containing all the plugins packages by the Apache Geronimo project.
- Another geronimo server running the jetty or tomcat plugin-console plugin.
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You can install a plugin into an existing server in different ways:
- Gshell GShell deploy/list-plugins command
- Geronimo administrative console
- Using maven and the geronimo-maven-plugin
You can also install a plugin into a new server assembly using the car-maven-plugin.
Note that in all cases the dependency system assure that if you install a plugin, everything needed to run the plugin will also be installed. For instance if you install a Java EE application plugin such as one of the samples into the framework server, openejb, openjpa, the transaction manager and connector framework and the appropriate web container will also be installed as dependencies.
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