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Regarding both Geronimo javaee6 and minimal release bundles. Full support for multiple repositories was completed in GERONIMO-6270 and its sub-tasks. This support is available in the latest snapshots after March 1, 2012, and will be in the 3.0-beta-2 standard release. This documents how to setup multiple repositories after applying the changes from GERONIMO-6270.

For prior releases, this document can still be followed if the org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.defaultRepositories property is set properly, described in this document.

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The advantage of having multiple repositories is that they can reside on different server instances.

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For multiple instance support within a single Geronimo installation, it is recommended that each instance have its own local repository for deploying to (i.e. GERONIMO_SERVER/repository). The primary shared repository (GERONIMO_HOME/repository) in a multiple instance configuration should remain read-only.

This topic includes the following information:

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Creating multiple repositories on a single server instance

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1. Start Geronimo.
2. Create a directory repo2 under <geronimo_home>, for example, <geronimo_home>/repo2.
3. Create a file repo2.xml under the <geronimo_home>/repo2 directory, for example: Code BlockborderStylesolidtitlerepo2.xml <module xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2"> <environment> <moduleId> <groupId>org.example.configs</groupId> <artifactId>myrepo</artifactId> <version>2.2</version> <type>car</type> </moduleId> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.framework</groupId> <artifactId>j2ee-system</artifactId> <type>car</type> </dependency> </dependencies> <hidden-classes/> <non-overridable-classes/> </environment> <gbean name="Repo2" class="org.apache.geronimo.system.repository.Maven2Repository"> <attribute name="root">repo2/</attribute> <attribute name="resolveToServer">false</attribute> <reference name="ServerInfo"> <name>ServerInfo</name> </reference> </gbean> <gbean name="Local2" class="org.apache.geronimo.system.configuration.RepositoryConfigurationStore"> <reference name="Repository"> <name>Repo2</name> </reference> </gbean> </module>
4. Deploy the repo2.xml from the command prompt:
   deploy(.bat) deploy <GERONIMO_HOME>/repo2/repo2.xml
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   To verify that the repository is successfully deployed, you can list the targets on the current server with the command:
   deploy(.bat) list-targets, and you can see the following information: No Format Available Targets: org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.2/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-system/2.2/car,j2eeType=ConfigurationStore,name=Local org.example.configs/myrepo/2.2/car?ServiceModule=org.example.configs/myrepo/2.2/car,j2eeType=ConfigurationStore,name=Local2
5. Update the etc/org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.cfg file, add the new second repository to the org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.defaultRepositories property
   The property org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.defaultRepositories maintains a comma-delimited list of repositories that are used by the run-time server.
   The format is: file: < /absolute/path/to/repo2 > @snapshots
   And if a variable it used, the new repository just deployed would be defined as: Code Blockfile:${org.apache.geronimo.server.dir}/repo2@snapshots And the resulting property would be set to something that looks like this: Code Blockorg.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.defaultRepositories=file:${karaf.home}/repository@snapshots,file:${org.apache.geronimo.server.dir}/repo2@snapshots The first defined repository is the default and primary GERONIMO_HOME/repository, the second one is the new GERONIMO_HOME/repo2 repository just created.

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1. List the targets on the current server via the command: deploy(.bat) list-targets, and you can see the following information: No Format Available Targets: org.example.configs/myrepo/2.2/car?ServiceModule=org.example.configs/myrepo/2.2/car,j2eeType=ConfigurationStore,name=Local2 org.apache.geronimo.configs/j2ee-system/2.2/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.configs/j2ee-system/2.2/car,j2eeType=ConfigurationStore,name=Local
2. Deploy the application to the repository repo2, named as "Local2" with the following deploy command:

• On a Windows system:
  deploy.bat deploy --targets Local2 <SAMPLE_HOME>/applications/geronimo-jsp-examples/target/geronimo-jsp-examples-2.2.war
• On a non-Windows system:
  deploy deploy --targets Local2 <SAMPLE_HOME>/applications/geronimo-jsp-examples/target/geronimo-jsp-examples-2.2.war
  where <SAMPLE_HOME> is the directory of your samples. Then, the jsp example is deployed to the new repository repo2. The following message is displayed: No Format Deployed org.apache.geronimo.applications.examples/geronimo-jsp-examples/2.2/war @ /jsp-examples

1. Access the application at http:// < host > : < port > /jsp-examples.

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• On a Windows system:
  deploy.bat undeploy "org.apache.geronimo.applications.examples/geronimo-jsp-examples/2.2/war"
• On a non-Windows system:
  deploy undeploy "org.apache.geronimo.applications.examples/geronimo-jsp-examples/2.2/war" No Format Module org.apache.geronimo.applications.examples/geronimo-jsp-examples/2.2/war unloaded. Module org.apache.geronimo.applications.examples/geronimo-jsp-examples/2.2/war uninstalled. Undeployed org.apache.geronimo.applications.examples/geronimo-jsp-examples/2.2/war

Creating multiple repositories on multiple server instances

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