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Overview

The Geronimo deployment plan for a resource adapter, which is usually packaged as a JAR file, is called "Deploying a resource adapter in Geronimo requires a Geronimo plan. This may be an external plan or may be packed in the resource adapter rar file (NOT a jar file inside the rar file) as "META-INF/geronimo-ra.xml". The geronimo-ra.xml deployment plan is used in conjunction with the ra.xml Java EE deployment plan to deploy JCA connector JARRAR(s) to the Geronimo application server. The geronimo-ra.xml deployment plan is an optional file, but is typically used when deploying a resource adapter JAR file. It is used to specify a moduleId for the deployed module, any third party dependencies, a description for the JCA adapter, an administration object, outbound connection pooling parameters, overridden config-properties, admin objects such as jms destinations, and additional GBeans..

Packaging

The geronimo-ra.xml deployment plan can be packaged as follows:

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