Geronimo needs some "special purpose" "little" servers related to the main one, for instance to run javaee app clients. I'm thinking of implementing this as a karaf child instance. I'm going to make a kar to install it (i.e. all the etc/ and such resource files will be in a kar under resources/instances/client/etc).
At the moment I'm thinking of just reusing most of the files from the main server and hand-editing them, but maybe it would be possible to combine things so that the server-assembly mojos generate something into the instances/<foo> directory and then the kar packaging step packs stuff into a kar. I don't yet know if this makes sense... it would result in it being easy to make installable child instances with properties defined in the pom. Putting the idea out in case I forget about it :-) thanks david jencks
