Creating and using a custom server assembly
In this section we discuss how to use the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin to create and use a custom server assembly.
Creating a custom server assembly
In order to create a custom server assembly, you must already have a Geronimo Server installed and started. The popup menu on the running server has a Launch Server Custom Assembly menu on it. Clicking this menu item will bring up the Server Custom Assembly dialog that is shown below.
Enter in the pertinent information and select all the plugins that you desire to have in the new server. The Geronimo Assembly :: Boilerplate Minimal plugin MUST be selected in order to create a working server. The working server will be placed in the specified directory. A tar ball or zip file will also be placed in the var/temp
directory of the running server for easy distribution.
Using a custom server assembly
Now that we have created the custom server assembly above, it is time to use it. Stop the original server and uninstall it (easiest done by using the Windows Preferences dialog via the Server Runtime Environments page). Use the same method that you used to install the original server with one small difference. This time, point to the directory where the newly created server is.
In place of the full Geronimo server that you started with, you should now have a valid custom Geronimo Server.