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Geronimo is in the first place a Java^TM^ 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server, but can be seen as a general service container. The main focus of developing Geronimo was the managing and scaling of application servers. Geronimo's intention was never to re-implement a servlet or an EJB container, but to use existing open source applications (mainly from Apache http://www.apache.org/) whenever possible, plug it together and build a new application server.

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The standard Geronimo distribution comes with Apache Tomcat http://tomcat.apache.org/ and EJB container (OpenEJB http://incubator.apache.org/openejb/) component. Extending Geronimo by a monitoring component, developed for this paper, is like Tomcat, or any other component as long as they are GBeans, as shown in the #architectureBigFigure aboveFigure: #Geronimo extended by a monitor component. The fundamental entity within Geronimo are Geronimo Beans (GBeans).

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