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• Via Geronimo Administration Console
• Via Hot Deployment
• Via Deployer tool
• Via GShell
• Via GEP
• Via Clustering

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 Format

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 FormatbgColor#000000borderStylesolid

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

Via Deployer tool

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