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When you package your application you may include the deployment plan within the package or not. At deployment time, Geronimo will look for the deployment plan geronimo-web.xml and deployment descriptor web.xml (or geronimo-application.xml or geronimo-application-client.xml depending the type of application) in the WEB-INF directory within your packaged application. If Geronimo can not find those information it will attempt to deploy the application using defaults. If using defaults fails you will have to either provide a deployment plan repackaged in the application or provide an external deployment plan, in the following sections we will discuss further these alternatives.

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To install a new application via the Geronimo Administration Console the Install New Applications portlet is available by selecting Deploy New Deployer on the Console Navigation menu on the left hand side. This portlet also allows you to start automatically the application right after it was deployed.

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Back in the Geronimo Administration Console, from the Install New Applications portlet click on Browse to specify the path to the HelloWorld.war in the Archive: section. Make sure the Start app after install checkbox is selected (by default is checked) and then click on Install.

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For our example, access the Installed Web Applications portlet and click on Uninstall for the Component Name listing sample.applications/HelloWorldApp/2.0/war. This will stop the application first and then uninstall it. The confirmation message " Uninstalled application " should be listed at the bottom of the portlet.

These are the basic steps for installing and uninstalling applications via the Geronimo Administration Console, the following two sections will focus on the command line options.

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Via hot deployment

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Apache Geronimo has support for Hot Deployment, which means that you can copy an application JAR file into the <geronimo_home>/deploy directory and the application will be deployed automatically. This will also work for uninstalling or refreshing applications previously deployed via this method. Alternatively, you may also copy the directory (unpacked) for the application module instead of copying a single JAR file.

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When you copy an application in the deploy directory, for example HelloWorld.war, you will see a confirmation message in the geronimo.log which locates in the <geronimo_home>/var/log directory. No FormatbgColor#000000borderStylesolid

11:45:23,500 INFO  [DirectoryHotDeployer] Deploying HelloWorld.war
11:45:23,953 INFO  [DirectoryHotDeployer] Deployed sample.applications/HelloWorldApp/2.0/war @ /hello

To remove the application, just delete the WAR or EAR file from the deploy directory. When the application has been removed you should see a confirmation message in the geronimo.log which locates in the <geronimo_home>/var/log directory. No Format

11:46:17,953 INFO  [DirectoryHotDeployer] Undeploying HelloWorld.war
11:46:18,281 INFO  [DirectoryMonitor] Hot deployer notified that an artifact was removed: sample.applications/HelloWorldApp/2.0/war
11:46:18,281 INFO  [DirectoryHotDeployer]     Undeployed sample.applications/HelloWorldApp/2.0/war

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Via Deployer tool

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The deployer tool will allow you, among other things, install and uninstall applications via a command line. In this section we will focus on just these two tasks for the sample application, the remaining functionality is fully covered in the Deployer tool section.

To deploy the HelloWorld.war sample application using the Deployer tool open a command line window and type the following command from the <geronimo_home>\bin directory:

deploy --user system --password manager deploy <app_home>\HelloWorld.war

If your application does not include the Geronimo specific deployment plan in the WEB-INF directory you can still, just like with the Geronimo Administration Console, specify it externally. You just need to add to the previous command the path and file name of the deployment plan.

deploy --user system --password manager deploy <app_home>\HelloWorld.war <deployment_plan_home>\plan.xml

Note that when specifying the deployment plan externally you can use any file name to identify that plan, there is no need to use the geronimo-XYZ.xml form. In our example we do not need to specify any additional deployment plans as we have the Geronimo specific ones already included in the package.

Once deployed you should see a confirmation message similar to this one with moduleID sample.applications/HelloWorldApp/2.0/war assigned to this application within your deployment plan:

D:\geronimo-tomcat6-jee5-2.0-M22\bin>deploy --user system --password manager deploy \HelloWorld_2.0\HelloWorld.war
Using GERONIMO_BASE:   D:\geronimo-tomcat6-jee5-2.12
Using GERONIMO_HOME:   D:\geronimo-tomcat6-jee5-2.12
Using GERONIMO_TMPDIR: D:\geronimo-tomcat6-jee5-2.12\var\temp
Using JRE_HOME:        C:\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\\jre
    Deployed sample.applications/HelloWorldApp/2.0/war @ /hello

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