The home page is http://geronimo.apache.org/ and there's a wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/geronimo/.

Concepts

GBean

Geronimo is modular; it consists of a kernel and a set of components that implement the features needed to implement the J2EE specification. GBean (short for "Geronimo Bean") is the kernel-component interface. There's no GBean interface per se, but each GBean has a corresponding GBeanInfo object that describes the GBean and tells the kernel how to interact with it. The source code for the GBeanTest class shows how a GBean is used.

GBeans are tracked using an MBeanServer (an MBean directory?).

Misc

• GBeanMBean
• Configuration
• JMX, MBean
• JSR-77 - a standard model for managing the J2EE Platform - home, overview
• JSR-88 - J2EE Application Deployment - home,

Startup

Needs to be run from the target directory (classpaths are relative to that dir). Runs using a standalone application jar called server.jar. The startup class specified in MANIFEST.MF is o.a.g.system.main.Daemon. The Daemon is a command-line wrapper around o.a.g.kernel.Kernel.

-- TobyCabot - 30 Jun 2004