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When you package your application, you may might include the deployment plan within the package or not. At deployment time, Geronimo will look looks for the deployment plan (for example, geronimo-web.xml and deployment descriptor (for example,web.xml (or , geronimo-application.xml or geronimo-application-client.xml depending on the type of application) in the WEB-INF directory within your packaged application. If Geronimo can not find those information it will attempt to deploy the application using defaults. If using defaults fails you will have to either provide a deployment plan repackaged in the application or provide an external deployment plan, in the following sections we will discuss further these alternatives.
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