Can you post the errors that you got? Geronimo uses some serialization for config files and things, but it should not attempt to serialize your whole application... It also does typically unpack the WAR file during deployment.
Aaron On 1/16/06, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I have a rather basic structure question. > From time to time I enabled a local webserver being run on tomcat > for downloads on a machine at home. > I have been moving the server to geronimo last week, due to > the fact that I also do j2ee development and having an ejb enabled > server helps. > (Also I love the admin console) > > Now I had the problem that I wanted to deploy a simple webapp which only > serves as download container for some bigger files. > I ran into the problem that I was able to deploy the app, but geronimo > did not expand the application war like tomcat but did some > precompilation and serialisation as well additionally to the expansion > of the hot deployed project. Once I dumped the big file into the dir, > geronimo started to choke and crashed the war runner with an internal > error, due to wanting to serialize the big file. > > My basic question is a case like this currently possible, or do I have > to revert back to basic tomcat for such a thing? > >