Plugin Groups

Plugin groups are basically groups of plugins for users to easily understand and consume them. Customizing server assemblies will be more easy and plugin groups can be installed as a regular plugin by using deploy command. There are 8 plugin groups for different distribution with Web Contaniner such as Tomcat and Jetty. We take Tomcat as an example here and introduce each plugin group and what plugins are included:

1. Geronimo Plugin Group :: Framework
   • description: This plugin group provides the framework functionality. It is required to build a working server.
   • Plugin included:

     plugin	description
     org.apache.geronimo.assemblies/geronimo-boilerplate//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/gshell-framework//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/gshell-geronimo//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/gshell-remote//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/client-system//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/rmi-naming//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/plugin//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-security//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/server-security-config//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/shutdown//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/jsr88-cli//car

     
     
2. Geronimo Plugin Group :: WADI Clustering Tomcat
   • description: This plugin group provides WADI Clustering functionality for Tomcat.
   • Plugins included:

     plugin	description
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/farming//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/wadi-clustering//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/openejb-clustering-builder-wadi//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/tomcat6-clustering-builder-wadi//car

     
     
3. Geronimo Plugin Group :: ejb
   • description: This plugin group provides EJB functionality.
   • Plugins included:

     plugin	description
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/openejb-corba-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/j2ee-corba-yoko//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/mejb//car

     
     
4. Geronimo Plugin Group :: client
   • description: This plugin group provides Client functionality.
   • Plugins included:

     plugin	description
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/client-corba-yoko//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/client-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/jsr88-jar-configurer//car

     
     

1. Geronimo Plugin Group :: Persistence
   • description: This plugin group provides Persistence functionality.
   • Plugins included:

     plugin	description
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/persistence-jpa10-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/openjpa//car

     
     
2. Geronimo Plugin Group :: Web Little-G Tomcat
   • description: This plugin group provides the little-G Tomcat functionality.
   • Plugins included:

     plugin	description
     org.apache.geronimo.assemblies/geronimo-boilerplate//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/upgrade-cli//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/offline-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/hot-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/jsr88-ear-configurer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/jsr88-rar-configurer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/jsr88-war-configurer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/remote-deploy-tomcat//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/gshell-geronimo//car
     org.apache.geronimo.framework/gshell-remote//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/tomcat6-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/jasper-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/sharedlib//car

     
     
3. Geronimo Plugin Group :: Web Services Axis2
   • description: This plugin group provides Web Services Axis2 functionality.
   • Plugins included:

     plugin	description
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/axis-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/axis2-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/axis2-ejb-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/jaxws-tools//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/cxf-tools//car

     
     
4. Geronimo Plugin Group :: Web Services CXF
   • description: This plugin group provides Web Services CXF functionality.
   • Plugins included:

     plugin	description
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/axis-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/cxf-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/cxf-ejb-deployer//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/jaxws-tools//car
     org.apache.geronimo.configs/cxf-tools//car