To facilitate the creation of deployment plans there is a new portlet now available. The plan creator wizard available from the Geronimo Administration Console makes deployment easier by asking you some questions and proposing default values when providing a web application WAR file.

Supported features

The plan creator wizard will help you generate the appropriate deployment plan for the application you are deploying. The wizard currently works for web apps and supports the following features.

• EJB
• EJB Local
• JDBC Connection Pool
• JMS Connection Factory
• JMS Destination
• JavaMail Session & Web Service References declared in the web-apps are auto discovered and users are asked to resolve them by listing Available Resources in the server environment to which they can be linked.
• Above type of references declared inside the Java classes through Annotations are also auto discovered.
• Simplified configuration of Security.

Using the wizard