Welcome to the Apache Geronimo v2.1 documentation. This is a work in progress and at this point in time we are starting to outline the new features that will become part of this new release, so expect this documentation to be updated frequently.
To help you find the content you are looking for we are separating the documentation in two main groups, User's guide and Developer's guide.
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
- Geronimo architecture
- GBeans
- Subprojects
- Components
- Distributions
- Repositories
- Configuration
- Customize the server
- Installation
- Prerequiste software
- Downloading Geronimo
- Building from source
- Installing Geronimo from binaries
- Changing default ports
- Changing the username and password
- Editing the properties files manually
- Modifying the security configuration from the Administration Console
- Topologies
- Two-tier system
- Three-tier system
- Configuring with Apache HTTPd
- 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
- Administrative tasks
- 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
- Annotations
- Deployment plans
- geronimo-web.xml
- geronimo-application.xml
- geronimo-ra.xml
- geronimo-application-client.xml
- openejb-jar.xml
- 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
- Tooling
- Devtools
- Geronimo eclipse plugin
- j2g
- Devtools
Developer's guide
- Quick start - fast and easy development
- Getting the software
- Package your applications
- Deploy
- Run
- Development environment
- Options and tools
- Installing eclipse
- Creating a new project
- Configuring your development environment
- Installing geronimo plugins
- Defining servers
- Geronimo architecture
- JEE spec compliance
- Components/modules
- Maven
- Geronimo plugin architecture
- Repositories
- GBeans
- Classloaders
- APIs
- Configuration
- Building Geronimo
- with maven
- from eclipse
- custom build (just what you need)