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The first deploy is the script that calls the deployer tool, then we pass the user name and password. The second deploy is the actual command option for deploying the daytrader-ear-1.2-SNAPSHOT.ear EAR using the daytrader-1.2-beta-plan.xml deployment plan specifically. In your own application you could call this plan geronimo-application.xml and place it in the META-INF directory within you EAR file and you will not need to expressely expressly specify the deployment plan from the command line.

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Daytrader is now ready for testing.

Running Daytrader

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• Access the application pointing your browser to http://localhost:8080/daytrader
• Click on the Configuration tab.
• Since we already created the database we can now proceed to populating data, click on (Re)-populate DayTrader Database to generate the sample data.