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There are several alternatives available for Deploying and undeploying applications

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When you package your application you may include the deployment plan within the package or not. At deployment time, Geronimo will look for the deployment plan geronimo-web.xml and deployment descriptor web.xml (or geronimo-application.xml or geronimo-application-client.xml depending the type of application) in the WEB-INF directory within your packaged application. If Geronimo can not find those information it will attempt to deploy the application using defaults. If using defaults fails you will have to either provide a deployment plan repackaged in the application or provide an external deployment plan, in the following sections we will discuss further these alternatives.

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These are the basic steps for installing and uninstalling applications via the Geronimo Administration Console, the following two sections will focus on the command line options.

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Via hot deployment
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Apache Geronimo has support for Hot Deployment, which means that you can copy an application JAR file into the <geronimo_home>/deploy directory and the application will be deployed automatically. This will also work for uninstalling or refreshing applications previously deployed via this method. Alternatively, you may also copy the directory (unpacked) for the application module instead of copying a single JAR file.

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