This article provide details about the Apache Geronimo installation. Here you will find information about what are the prerequisite software, where to download Geronimo from and how to customize the installation to use custom ports other than the defaults.

In this document you will also find details about the installation and configuration of different topologies such as 2-tier with remote Web server.

This article is organized in the following sections:

Prerequisite software

Apache Geronimo v2.1 builds on J2SE 1.5 using Maven 2, get the appropriate JVM versions from the following sites.

• J2SE SDK (http://java.sun.com/)
• Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org/) only needed if building from source.

Note: Ensure that after installing Java in your system the <java_home>/bin directory is added to the system PATH and also ensure that both variables JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME are also defined.