Making deployment plan changes with Geronimo Deployment Plan Editor

Importing applications built with car-maven-plugin into GEP

Getting familiar with Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP)

Using datasource pool wizard in GEP

This article shows the usage of Geronimo Deployment Plan Editor to configure Geronimo deployment plans.

To modify deployment plans in Geronimo Deployment Plan Editor, as a minimum you will be required to have installed the following prerequisite software.

• Sun JDK 6.0+ (J2SE 1.6)
• Eclipse 3.4.1 (Eclipse Ganymede SR1 distribution) or Eclipse 3.5 (Eclipse Galileo)
• Apache Geronimo v2.2
• Geronimo Eclipse Plugin v2.2

We will consider the Currency Converter sample for the rest of this turial.

1. In WebEJB project, select WebContent -> WEB-INF -> geronimo-web.xml, right click and select Open With -> Geronimo Deployment Plan Editor.
   
   
   
   
2. Selecting the Naming tab, you can configure all references of the Web application.
   
   
   
   
3. You can add security options in the Security tab if necessary.
4. In the Deployment tab, you can edit all server dependencies or classloader configurations of the Web application.
   
   
   
   
5. Once done open the source tab you can see the source code of the deployment plan.
6. In CurrencyConvertEJB project, you can select ejbModule -> META-INF -> openejb-jar.xml,right click and select Open With -> Geronimo Deployment Plan Editor.
   
   
   
   
7. Similarly you can make changes to openejb-jar.xml in the editor. Once you complete the configuration, open the source tab you can see the source code of the deployment plan.