If you are in a hurry to have Apache Geronimo up and running right away, this article will provide you with some can show you the basic steps for of downloading, building (when needed) and run running the server in no a short time.

All you need is 5 to 10 minutes and to follow these basic steps.

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Getting the software

There are currently the following two way ways to get the released software. You can either retrieve it :

Retrieve the source code from the Apache SVN repository

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Download the binary

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files from the Apache Geronimo Web site.

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This section only shows how to download the binary files from the Apache Geronimo Web site because this way is faster and easier than retrieving the source code from the Apache SVN repository.

Prerequisites

Before you install Geronimo, you must install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK). JDK is only required for wsgen tools.

Installing Java SE 5 or 6

Prerequisites

Although this installation path is the fastest one, still you will need to install some software before installing Geronimo.

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Apache Geronimo v2.1 2 is Java EE 5 Certified. Refer to the following URL for details on For more information about how to download and install J2SE 1.5:
the latest JRE or JDK of Java SE 5 or Java SE 6, go to http://java.sun.com.

Download binaries

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It is possible to run Apache Geronimo v2.2 on the IBM 1.5.0/1.6.0 SDK and other implementations of Java that are certified as Java SE 5 or 6 compliant, but Geronimo is not tested or certified on those implementations.

Downloading binary files

You can go to you will select the appropriate installation image. Open a Web browser and access the following URL, there you will find the available packages for download (binaries and source code).http://geronimo.apache.org/downloads.html to download the available packages (binary files and source code). You must select the installation file according to the platform that you plan to install and run Apache Geronimo on.

Geronimo v2.2 Geronimo v2.1 is available in the following three assembly configurations:

Java EE 5 : full Java EE 5 functionality - Certified version.
Minimal (Little-G) : Web Container, Transaction, and Connector capabilities
Framework : Geronimo kernel core functionality

In this section, we use Java EE 5 and Little-G assemblies are provided with Jetty or assembly configuration with Tomcat Web Containerscontainer. You can find For more information about the Jetty project here. More information on the Tomcat project is available here. Both are excellent Web Containers that are compliant with the Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications. Your choice may be driven by your past experience and particular functionality requirements.

Framework assembly offers just a framework for you to build up your own custom Geronimo server based on the available plugins. Unlike Little-G, this distribution does not include a web container, it only provides the bare minimum support for installing plugins.

Select the file compression format compatible with your system (zip, tar, gz) by clicking directly on the link, download it and expand the binary to your hard drive in a new directory. For example in z:/geronimo, from now on this directory will be referenced as <geronimo_home>.

The installation of Apache Geronimo is as simple as uncompressing the .zip or .tar.gz files. The next step is to start the server.

Start the server

With Apache Geronimo already installed, open a command line console and change directory to <geronimo_home>/bin and run the following command:

geronimo run

This script starts the server on the same terminal you run the command. Once the server is started you should see a screen similar to this one.

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difference between these three assembly configurations, see Getting and installing Geronimo.

You can download the installation file with the compression format (.zip or .tar.gz) that is compatible with your operating system by clikcing the link on the website. To install Apache Geronimo, extract the binary files to a new directory on your hard disk, for example, z:/geronimo. In the rest of this section, this directory is referred to as <geronimo_home>.

Starting the server

To start Apache Geronimo:

In the command-line interface, go to the <geronimo_home>/bin directory.
Type one of the following commands:
- geronimo run
- start-server
- gsh geronimo/start-server

These commands start the server within the command-line interface instead of in the background. When the server is started, you can see the following information.

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To verify that the Apache Geronimo server is running, go to http://localhost:8080/console to open the Geronimo administrative console. The Geronimo administrative console plugin /remote-deploy /system-database Geronimo Application Server started To test the Apache Geronimo server you can just point your Web browser to the following URL to test the Geronimo Console. The Geronimo Administration Console is the first application you can test, and the good thing is, it is already . It is deployed in the standard, full J2EE certified distribution.

http://localhost:8080/console

Java EE certified distribution of Apache Geronimo.

When the Geronimo administrative console is open, When prompted enter system as the user name and manager as the password.

The following figure illustrates shows the Web-based Geronimo administrative console.

At this point Now you have Apache Geronimo up and running and the time spent has been minimal. The following section offers a very basic sample JSP and shows you how to create, deploy, and run that a sample JSP Web application on Apache Geronimo.

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Creating and

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deploying a sample application

A To create a HelloWorld like JSP is almost a default for these basic testing and everybody is already familiar with it. JSP Web application:

Create a new directory to hold all the application related files.

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In the rest of this section, this directory

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In the <app_home> directory, create a plain text file named HelloWorld.jsp, and then copy the

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following code to this file.

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<html>
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  <body bgcolor="#1276C2">
     <h1>
        <font face="tahoma" color="white">
                 Hello world from GERONIMO!
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       </h1>
          <font face="tahoma" color="white">on ${datetime}</font>
      </body>
</html>

We will now To deploy an application, you must create a Geronimo specific deployment plan so you would get a first glimpse of the deployment plans. . To create the deployment plan for the sample application:

Create a directory named WEB-INF

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In the <app_home>/WEB-INF directory, create a plain text file named geronimo-web.xml, and then copy the

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0.1">
    <environment>
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<groupId>org.apache.geronimo.samples</groupId>
            <artifactId>HelloWorldApp</artifactId>
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2</version>
            <type>war</type>
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    </environment>
    <context-root>/hello</context-root>
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<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
                       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		       xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
		       http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
    
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>HelloWorld.jsp</welcome-file>
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testing the application

For In this example, we will do not invest time in packaging the application. Instead, we will just use the --inPlace feature of the deployer tool which allows us to deploy the application. You can use this feature to deploy an application from any directory.Change directory to

To deploy the application:

In the command-line interface, go to the <geronimo_home>/bin

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Type the following command:

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deploy --user system --password manager deploy --inPlace <app_home>

Once When the application is successfully deployed, you should can see the following message:

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Test To test the application by pointing a Web browser to the following URL:, go to http://localhost:8080/hello.

Stopping the server

In the command-line interface where the server is started, press CTRL+C to stop the server.

Summary

This article showed shows you how simple it is to have Apache Geronimo up and running. The overall time for getting the server running should be It takes less than five minutes to start the server if you have installed the prerequisites already installed. Additionally, this article also showed shows you how to create, deploy and test a very simple JSP Web application in less than five minutes.

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Getting the software

Prerequisites

Installing Java SE 5 or 6

Prerequisites

Apache Geronimo v2.1 2 is Java EE 5 Certified. Refer to the following URL for details on For more information about how to download and install J2SE 1.5:
the latest JRE or JDK of Java SE 5 or Java SE 6, go to http://java.sun.com.

Download binaries

Downloading binary files

Start the server

Starting the server

Creating and

deploying a sample application

Deploying and

testing the application

Stopping the server

Summary

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Versions Compared

Old Version 11

New Version Current

Key

Getting the software

Prerequisites

Installing Java SE 5 or 6

Prerequisites

Apache Geronimo v2.1 2 is Java EE 5 Certified. Refer to the following URL for details on For more information about how to download and install J2SE 1.5:the latest JRE or JDK of Java SE 5 or Java SE 6, go to http://java.sun.com.

Download binaries

Downloading binary files

Start the server

Starting the server

Creating and

deploying a sample application

Deploying and

testing the application

Stopping the server

Summary

Apache Geronimo v2.1 2 is Java EE 5 Certified. Refer to the following URL for details on For more information about how to download and install J2SE 1.5:
the latest JRE or JDK of Java SE 5 or Java SE 6, go to http://java.sun.com.