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The Pluggable Administration Console is a new Administration Console designed to mirror the flexibility of Geronimo's architecture. While the previous console was static, allowing configuration only for pre-defined components, the new Pluggable Console changes dynamically with the components installed on your server.

This framework allows Geronimo plugin developers to package extensions to the Administration Console (called ACEs) with their components. On installation of a plugin, this new content will automatically be added to the Pluggable Administration Console, so that the user can manage all of the configuration and tools from one place.

The Pluggable Administration Console is intended to be installed in the minimal "Little G" assembly of Geronimo, which previously had no central administration console.

Common Terminology

Plugin - An archive file (.car or .war) that can be installed into Geronimo to install a specific new component, such as ActiveMQ. For more about plugins, or to look at available plugins, check out geronimoplugins.com or geronimoplugincentral.org.
.CAR file (Configuration ARchive) - An archive file that stores Geronimo-specific configurations, as well as the classes, libraries, web pages, and other information associated with an application.
.WAR file (Web ARchive)- An archive file that distributes a web application, including all of its classes, libraries, web pages, and other information. It can be deployed on any web application server.
ACE (Administration Console Extension) - An archive file (either a .car or a .war), that includes Administration Console portlets. These portlets will be added to the Pluggable Administration Console when the ACE is deployed.
Pluggable Administration console - A flexible version of Geronimo's original administration console. Once installed it is available at http://localhost:8080/pluto/portal, and includes some portlets that correspond to the currently installed components in Geronimo.
Component - a set of functionality for Geronimo - it may be pre-installed, such as the Tomcat or Jetty web container, or it may be installed as a plugin
Minimal console - The administration console as it is first installed - with only the components necessary for basic functionality
Portlet - A pluggable interface feature. These are the content areas that are added to web pages to display information or offer configuration options of a component.

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