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The Geronimo deployment plan for a resource adapter, which is usually packaged as a JAR file, is called "geronimo-ra.xml". The geronimo-ra.xml deployment plan is used in conjunction with the ra.xml Java EE deplopyment deployment plan to deploy JCA connector JAR(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, and additional GBeans..
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