Apache Geronimo: Enterprise Java Development and Deployment

Geronimo is a free, open source J2EE™ application server. It comes with everything you need to run standard J2EE applications developed against the J2EE 1.4 specifications, and it is also backward compatible to J2EE 1.3 and J2EE 1.2. Furthermore, its modular design makes it easy to customize, extend, or replace core server features. And thanks to the open source license, you can download the source code for troubleshooting, to help with enhancements, or just as a matter of record. Apache Geronimo allows any simple application or hosted Web site to take advantage of numerous J2EE features without incurring the traditional startup costs.

This book is an introduction to installing and configuring the Apache Geronimo application server, and then configuring and deploying applications to Geronimo. It is aimed at developers with prior J2EE experience, and basic knowledge of at least one other application server product. While some of the advanced topics cover specialized deployment scenarios, in general, this book is not aimed at system administrators.