This article document provide details about the Apache Geronimo installation and planning. Here you will find information about what are the prerequisite software, where to download Geronimo from and , how to customize the installation to use custom ports other than the defaults and how to start/stop Geronimo.

In this document you will also find details about the installation and configuration of different topologies such as 2-tier with remote Web server.

This article document is organized in the following sections:

Prerequisite software

Apache Geronimo v2.1 builds on J2SE 1.5 using Maven 2, get the appropriate JVM versions from the following sites.

• J2SE SDK (http://java.sun.com/)
• Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org/) only needed if building from source.

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