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• In the simple case we need only one root (ofbiz.home) and one classpath. Instances are numbered, except the "default one". This allows to keep OFBiz current code : all links from a numbered instances going out of the current application to another application will go to the corresponding called application in the default non numbered instance. This is more a hack but it works. It's interesting when you have a lot of people working in a sole application as it's the case when you have a group of people working to seel goods by phone or other channels (customer support) and for the eCommerce aplication as well.
• In the second case there are as many as roots and classpathes couples as there are different instances. I have already in code what is needed to deal with both cases, but I got an issue when writing to modules web.xml (the xml root node is readonly and I don't understand why). In the simple case it's not a problem as we need only to write in the 1st web.xml file (in webtools's) and we can do it by hand (we don't need to dynamically put an instance number in it). Anyway there is much more than this since OFBiz is not build to run multi-instances. In the 1st case it's less a problem as all instances refer to the default corresponding application but to work properly in the general case it would need to introduce an instance number parameter in links. Waiting for such a solution I can see two ways :

1. Introduce an instance number in the web.xml file of the 1st web app loaded (OOTB it's webtools). Then use 2 instances for each instance one numbered and the other not. This is of course very clumsy
2. I also got a glimpse of another possibility during my reading of Geronimo or WASCE documentation but I forgot where. I

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1. 'm pretty sure it's the right solution, but I would have to search anew... It's a bit like Ludovic Maître suggested in one of his emails in user ML (he wrote about Tomcat namespaces but it was not clear to me about what exactly he was speaking)

Miscellaneous experiences

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Remote deployment using the --inPlace option (for a totally exploded EAR with exploded and only exploded WARs inside as OFBiz is deployed above) is only possible if you exactly replicate the deployed directory structure on both the client and the server machine. If you are on Windows you must even replicate the drive more information on Geronimo forum. I have open a Jira issue for this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3963. Also beware of heterogeous environments (WIndows to Linux for instance) as I did any such tests