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Background

Apache Geronimo is a J2EE certified application server that is completely opensource and under the Apache License.Geronimo first passed the Technology Compatibility Kit(TCK) test in 2005 and v1.0 was released in January 2006. The Geronimo community is backed by over 28 committers from more than 8 companies, multiple organizations have already started builing applications on Geronimo. Geronimo v1.1 is the second official release of the application server by the Apache Software Foundation.

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These jar files can be started using the java -jar to invoke the main class in <geronimo_home>/bin/<the name of the .jar file>.
The client.jar file can be used to start the Geronimo configuration that contains the application client that you want to run.
The deployer.jar file is a Java application that manages J2EE artifacts and GBeans that run on the Geronimo server.
The server.jar file is used to start the Geronimo server.
The update.jar can be used to upgrade xml files from the previous Geronimo version to the current one.
The shutdown.jar file can be invoked from command line to shutdown the server.

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To start the server run the following command:

java -jar server.jar

Alternatively a script is provided, the startup script will also start the server. Once the server is started you should see the following information on the command line console.

Booting Geronimo Kernel (in Java 1.5)...
Starting Geronimo Application Server v1.1
[**********************] 100%  32s Startup complete
  Listening on Ports:
    1099 0.0.0.0 RMI Naming
    1527 0.0.0.0 Derby Connector
    4201 0.0.0.0 ActiveIO Connector EJB
    4242 0.0.0.0 Remote Login Listener
    8009 0.0.0.0 TomcatJetty Connector AJPAJP13
    8080 0.0.0.0 TomcatJetty Connector HTTP
    8443 0.0.0.0 TomcatJetty Connector HTTPS
    9999 0.0.0.0 JMX Remoting Connector
   61616 0.0.0.0 ActiveMQ Message Broker Connector

  Started Application Modules:
    EAR: geronimo/webconsole-tomcatjetty/1.1-410806/car
    RAR: geronimo/activemq/1.1-410806/car
    RAR: geronimo/system-database/1.1-410806/car
    WAR: geronimo/remote-deploy-tomcatjetty/1.1-410806/car
    WAR: geronimo/welcome-tomcatjetty/1.1-410806/car

  Web Applications:
    http://hcunicolsf-c9gr5600wbf:8080/
    http://hcunicolsf-c9gr5600wbf:8080/console
    http://hcunicolsf-c9gr5600wbf:8080/console-standard
    http://hcunicolsf-c9gr5600wbf:8080/remote-deploy

Geronimo Application Server started

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<web-app
   xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-1.1"
   xmlns:naming="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming">

   >
	<environment>
		<moduleId>
			<groupId>sample.applications</groupId>
			<artifactId>HelloWorldApp</artifactId>
			<version>1.0</version>
		</moduleId>		
	</environment>
  	<context-root>/hello</context-root>

</web-app> 

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From a command line window change directory to <app_home> and run the following command to package the HelloWorld application into a single .war file.

jar -cvf HelloWorld.war *

This will create a HelloWorld.war file in the <app_home> directory. The next step is to deploy this application.

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Log into the Geronimo console and click on the  Deploy New link of the Applications folder located on the left hand side of the console navigation panel. This will load the Install New Applications window.

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Then select and load the HelloWorld.war file into the Archive input box and click install button to deploy application in to the server. Once the application is successfully deployed, the screen will be updated with a successful deploy message. Before clicking the install button, make sure that the "Start app after install" checkbox is enabled.

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Change directory to <geronimo_home>/bin and run the following command:

java -jar deployer.jar --user system --password manager deploy <app_home>/HelloWorld.war

Once the application is successfully deployed you should see the following message:

E:\geronimo\bin>java -jar deployer.jar --user system --password manager deploy E:\HelloWorld\HelloWorld.war
    Deployed HelloWorld @ http://hcunicolocalhost:8080/hello

Test the application by pointing a Web browser to the following URL:

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