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To package the deployment plans in you application you have to follow some naming conventions and place the file in a specific directory within your packaged application. For example, in a web application you would include the geronimo-web.xml under the /WEB-INF directory, same place where you are also providing the web.xml descriptor, all within the WAR. For an enterprise application you would include the geronimo-application.xml under the /META-INF directory, same place where you are also providing the application.xml descriptor, all within the WAR.

The Java EE 5 specification also let's lets you use Annotations where you add resource references, dependencies and so on, etc. directly in the code. Geronimo provides a Creating deployment plans using the deployment plan wizard that automatically generates the necessary deployment plans based on the standard deployment descriptors and annotations.