This section briefly describes the changes to some of the features from the previous release and their impact on current installations. This section also includes a list with the new features added in this release.

Major changes and enhancements

The following list briefly describes major changes and enhanced functionality from the previous release of Apache Geronimo.

• Repository.
  The config-sotre has been removed and it has been consolidated into a single repository directory structure.

• Deployment plans
  Deployment plans have been updated to support versioning, configId has been totaly removed and replaced with a whole new structure as illustrated in the following example.

      <dep:moduleId>
        <dep:groupId>geronimo</dep:groupId>
        <dep:artifactId>ApplicationId</dep:artifactId>
        <dep:version>1.1</dep:version>
        <dep:type>war</dep:type>
      </dep:moduleId>
  

Refer to Deployment plans for details.

• Tools and commands
  As a consequence of changing the configId, the commands will now take moduleId as the paramenter instead of configId.

• Schemas
  • geronimo-config-1.1.xsd -> geronimo-module-1.1.xsd
    • configId -> moduleId
• Enhanced SMTP support
• Keystore configuration

New features

• Geronimo Administration Console
  • Information - Server memory utilization graphic
  • Thread Pools
  • Apache HTTP - Remote HTTPd configuration
  • Plugins
• Tools and commands
  • Deployer tool
    • login
    • plugins
• Little-G
  • Minimal Tomcat configuration
  • Minimal Jetty configuration