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This article is about how to use the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin(GEP) to convert Applications into Geronimo plugins and install them back into the server.

We use Apache Geronimo v2.2 and an existing sample application throughout the tutorial. See Stateless Session Bean for development and deployment of the application.

Creating Geronimo plugins

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The above process creates a maven-like repository with the name specified in Local Plugin Repository field at the first page of the wizard. A geronimo-plugin.xml file is created for each plugin under its /META-INF directory. The top directory of the repository includes a geronimo-plugins.xml file which keeps track of all the plugins that have been created. The values in these files came from fields in the last two pages of the wizard.

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Installing Geronimo Plugins

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• To remove the projects, use Add and Remove item on the right-click list of the server in Eclipse;
• To remove the resources, the database pool in this tutorial, you can use undeploy command as followed;
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  #000000borderStylesolid ./deploy.sh --user system --password manager undeploy console.dbpool/jdbc_userds/1.0/car Using GERONIMO_HOME: /home/jeffchi/Geronimo/g2.2-tomcat6 Using GERONIMO_TMPDIR: var/temp Using JRE_HOME: /opt/ibm/java-i386-60/jre Module console.dbpool/jdbc_userds/1.0/car unloaded. Module console.dbpool/jdbc_userds/1.0/car uninstalled. Undeployed console.dbpool/jdbc_userds/1.0/car
  

Installing the plugins

To install the plugins back into a Geronimo server, follow the steps below:

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