developerWorks: Three Ways to Connect a Database to a Geronimo Application Server

“Geronimo is a flexible application server capable of hosting
many different application components. Geronimo uses deployment
plans to help the application deployment system figure out which
pieces of an application need to go where. The J2EE specification
leaves some of the details of deployment up to the application
server provider to define. The Apache Geronimo team currently uses
deployment plans to tell the server what parts are available as
well as how they should be configured and deployed.

“In the case of a Web application, the deployed .war file will
contain a deployment plan called geronimo-jetty.xml that is placed
in the WEB-INF directory of your Web application along with the
web.xml file…”

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