Apache Geronimo provides several tools for administering the server. These tools are available via command line and some via a Web based console. The Web based Geronimo console is explained in detail in the following section Geronimo Administration Console. The currently available command line tools are located in the <geronimo_home>/bin directory and are enumerated in the following list:

Although the tools name is self-explanatory, it may not be the same case with the tool's parameters. The following sections explain more in detail these tools and commands usage.

geronimo

The geronimo command lets you perform the previous two actions, that is start and stop the server in different modes depending on the parameters you specify. This command has the following syntax:

<geronimo_home>/bin/geronimo [options]

The available options are:

debug
This option will start the server in JDB debugger.

jpda run
This option will start the server in foreground under JPDA debugger

jpda start
This option will start the server in background under JPDA debugger.

run
This option will start the server in the current window.

start
This option will start the server in a separate window just like the startup command.

stop
This option will stop the server.

Both start and stop options for this command will have the same set of parameters as the startup and shutdown commands.

startup

You can start the Apache Geronimo server in two different ways by running the following commands:

<geronimo_home>java -Djava.endorsed.dirs=lib/endorsed -javaagent:bin/jpa.jar -jar bin/server.jar

or simply

<geronimo_home>/bin/startup

The startup command invokes server.jar.

In both cases this command accepts the following:

--quiet
Suppress the normal startup progress bar. This is typically used when redirecting console output to a file, or starting the server from an IDE or other tool.

--long
Write startup progress to the console in a format that is suitable for redirecting console output to a file, or starting the server from an IDE or other tool (does not use linefeeds to update the progress information that is used by default if you do not specify --quiet or --long).

-v --verbose
Sets the console log level to INFO, resulting in more console output than is normally present.

-vv --veryverbose
Sets the console log level to DEBUG, resulting in even more console output.

-override [configId]
Overrides the configurations in <geronimo_home>/var/config.list such that only the configurations listed on the command line will be started. Note that many J2EE
features depend on certain configs being started, so you should be very careful what you omit. Any arguments after -override are assumed to be configuration names.

shutdown

Deployer tool

deploy

client.jar

jpa.jar