Quick start - Apache Geronimo for the impatient

This article is organized in the following sections:

Prerequisite

When working with the Geronimo 2.1 binary downloads, J2SE 1.5 is required.

Apache Geronimo v2.1 provides full support for Sun JDK 5.0+ (J2SE 1.5.0+). Refer to the following URL for details on how to download and install J2SE 1.5: http://java.sun.com

Getting Geronimo

Installing Geronimo

Starting the Geronimo server

Stopping a Geronimo server

Deploying an application

You can deploy an application archive (.war, .ear, or .jar) to a Geronimo server using any of the following techniques:

• ./bin/gsh deploy/deploy <path-to-application-archive>
• ./bin/deploy.sh deploy <path-to-applicaton-archive>
• cp <path-to-application-archive> deploy/
• using the deploy capabilities in the Administrative Console
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