In this section, we discuss some of the important aspects of deployment of artifacts on a Geronimo server.
The deployer aggregates all instances of the ConfigurationBuilder
available on the server and invokes the appropriate ConfigurationBuilder
to deploy an archive, or a Geronimo-specific deployment plan XML file, or both. The deployer can be used through the web-based Administration Console, command-line deploy tool, hot-deployer, or GShell. Note that Administration Console, command line deploy tool, and GShell provide the option to specify an archive and a plan, whereas hot-deployer requires that the plan be packaged inside the archive.
Installed modules, applications, and services configurations can be uninstalled using the command-line deploy tool or GShell, and specifying the configuration ID. Configurations can also be uninstalled by clicking on the uninstall link in the Administration Console from the appropriate Applications portlets page. See Chapter...