User's guide

• What's new in 2.1?
  • New features
  • Component versions
  • Configuration changes
  • Backwards compatibility
  • RELEASE-NOTES-2.1.TXT

• Quick start - Apache Geronimo for the impatient
  • Getting the software
  • Start the server
  • Create and deploy a sample application

• Installation and configuration
  • Prerequisite software
  • Downloading Geronimo
    • Building from source
    • Installing Geronimo from binaries
  • Initial configuration
    • Changing the default port numbers
    • Aliasing modules
    • Changing the username and password
  • Topology planning
    • Two-tier system
    • Three-tier system
    • Remote Apache HTTPd
  • Summary

• Administration
  • Administrative tasks
    • Administering applications
    • Administering the Apache Geronimo Server
    • Configuring security
    • Configuring services
  • Configuring Virtual Hosts
  • Create a database
  • Geronimo Administration Console
    • What changed?
    • Console enhancements
    • The pluggable console
    • Expert mode
    • Deployment plans wizard
    • CA helper
  • Running Geronimo as a non-root user
  • Tools and commands

• Monitoring
  • What is it?
  • What can I monitor
  • Impact on the server workload?
  • Install
  • Customization

• Deployment
  • What changed?
  • New deployment options
    • Command line - standard
    • Command line - GShell
    • Plugins
    • Console
      • Deployment plan wizard
  • Annotations
  • Deployment plans
    • geronimo-web.xml
    • geronimo-application.xml
    • geronimo-ra.xml
    • geronimo-application-client.xml
    • openejb-jar.xml
      • Client JNDI Names

• GShell
  • What is it?
  • Benefits
  • What it does/replaces
  • Tools and commands
  • How-to samples

• Pluggable console
  • What is it?
  • Benefits
  • Architecture
  • Install/deploy
  • Customization
  • Developing new portlets

• Plugin infrastructure
  • What are the plugins?
  • Enhancements from previous releases
  • Plugin infrastructure/architecture
  • plugin.xml
  • Plugins install
  • Pluggable console
  • GShell commands option

• Security
  • Enhancements
  • Planning
  • Configuration
  • Configuring run-as and Default Subjects, and principal-role mapping

• Tooling
  • Devtools
    • Geronimo eclipse plugin
  • j2g

• Clustering

• Sample applications
  • Apache Harmony
  • SPECjAppServer2004

Developer's guide

• Quick start - fast and easy development
  • Getting the software
  • Installing Geronimo Eclipse Plugin
  • Defining a New Server Runtime
  • Package your applications
  • Deploy your application
  • Run your application

• Development environment
  • Installing eclipse
  • Creating a new project
  • Configuring your development environment
  • Installing geronimo plugins
  • Defining servers

• Geronimo architecture
  • JEE spec compliance
  • Components/modules
    • Containers
    • Services
    • Database
    • Persistence
    • Web services
    • Security
    • Resource adapters
  • Maven
  • Geronimo plugin architecture
  • Plugable console
  • Repositories
  • GBeans
  • Classloaders
  • APIs
  • Configuration

• Development and deployment planning
  • Development tools
  • The JEE specification
  • Containers
  • Services
  • Connectors
  • Annotations
  • Databases
  • Deployment options

• Building Geronimo
  • with maven
  • from eclipse
  • Custom server assemblies

• Tutorials
  • Web applications
    • Web application for JMS access
    • Web Application for EJB access
    • Web Application for JDBC access
  • Java Server Faces
    • Developing a web application with JSFSimple Java Server Faces application
    • AJAX with JSF
    • Using JSP Immediate Expressions to access JSF
    • User Interface development with JSF
    • JSF application to perform create, delete, update operation against a database table
  • Application clients
    • Application client accessing EJB
  • EJB applications
    • 5-minute Tutorial on Enterprise Application Development with Eclipse and Geronimo
    • Stateless Session Bean
    • Stateful Session Bean
    • Message Driven Bean
    • Container Managed Persistance with JPA
    • Bean Managed Persistance with JPA
  • Web services
    • Building JAX-WS pojo web service
    • Building JAX-WS EJB stateless session bean web services
    • RESTFUL Web Services
    • SAAJ Web Services
    • MTOM Web Services
    • WS Addressing
    • Securing your applications
  • Persistence
    • Using Java Persistence API in application client
    • Working with JSF and JPA
  • Annotations
    • JAX-WS web service and client using annotations
  • Extending Geronimo
  • Portlets