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<gbean
	load="false" name="FirstValve"/>
<gbean name="TomcatResources"/>
    <gbean name="TomcatWebConnector">
      <attribute name="host">0.0.0.0</attribute>
      <attribute name="port">9000</attribute>
      <attribute name="redirectPort">8443</attribute>
    </gbean>

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Apache Geronimo installs with a the default username - system and password - manager.Since this does not offer security to the server, there There are three options to change the default username and password.

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In today's globalized world, modern organizations face a lot of opportunities and challenges every day. Many of these challenges can put an onus on the organization's IT infrastructure therefore IT security its configuration is crucial. The Apache Geronimo application server supports small-to-medium-sized enterprise applications and provides robust, security-minded secure support for the latest J2EE specification.This section will highlight the different configuration options that can be used in your production environment.

Two tier system

The figure below shows a client machine accessing an application hosted in the Geronimo server. Althougth the figure depicts only one client machine, several machines can be connected to the server and users on these machines can access the hosted Web applications using a standard Web browser.
The client side application can be vary from a simple command line user interface to fully-fledged user interface that can be created using popular client-side GUI technology.These applications can access the Web tier by connecting to the server using their own HTTP connections, or they can access business and EIS tier objects through the help of the Geronimo client application container.
Features of the Geronimo application client : -

• Seperate from the Geronimo serverRuns on an independant Java Virtual Machine
• Communication with the Geronimo server is over the network
• Provides mapping,dependency management for the client application and reference resolution

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Three tier architecture system is more scalable than two tier as it supports hundreds of users and organization is . It also provides a lot more easier and also increases flexibility and freedom.

Configuring with Apache HTTPd

The Apache web Web server is the best, and most preferred, HTTP server software in use on the Internet today. In your production enviroment using Geronimo with Apache web Web server would give you some rigorous advantages as given below.

1. Clustering & Load Balancing
   Clustering allows an application server to support multiple nodes with failover, session data sharing, and load balancing across many network nodes. Load balancing of the application can be done with the help of inbuilt support of Apache server. For detailed information on Clustering pelase please refer Remote HTTPd server section.
   
2. SSL Encoder
   The advantages of Web server proxies are that they offer a way to get server affinity for SSL-encrypted messages, without any extra hardware. But extensive SSL processing puts an extra load on the proxy. It will be handled by Apache server while Geronimo can handle business logic of the application.
   

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Using the Geronimo application server lets you build a secure enterprise infrastructure conforming to the latest standards and requirements.Geronimo supports provides two security options for both web-tier and J2EE EJB, programmatic and declarativeThis article gave you an insight into custom configuaration of the standard Geronimo installation, with several installation methods.