Besides using Maven to build plugins, you can use admin console to export your applications, dbpools to local disk, then create a custom plugin repository.
The only requirement is that all your applications, dbpools should be specifieded as .car be deployed in 2.2-snapshot. Here is the doc(1) for your reference. It demonstrates how to export plugins, how to create a custom repository and how to install them. The page is kind of out-of-date and we'll update the page soon. But I guess the spirits are the same. (1) http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC22/Converting+applications+into+plugins+using+the+Administration+Console If you are talking about lots of applications, using car-maven-plugin to build would be the No.1 choice. Jeff C On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:31 PM, David Jencks <david_jen...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Juergen Weber wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> got a new 2.2 snapshot. How would I best get my current installation into >> the new snapshot? >> >> deploy/new-instance only creates a new server into the current >> installation, >> does it? >> >> http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/geronimo-gshell-commands.html#GeronimoGShellCommands-Creatinganewinstance >> >> What I'd need is to export all installed applications + plans (database >> pools) into a zip and import the zip into the new server installation. >> This >> would also be useful for backing up or moving a server to another machine. >> > > that won't really work. > > There have been a lot of gbean structure changes recently and definitely > since 2.1.x so you will almost certainly need to redeploy your apps. > > I strongly recommend that you use maven to build your applications (and db > pools etc) into plugins and then assemble a custom server including them > (again using maven) This gives you a reproducible process in version > control that generates the server you want with the apps you need in it. > > One possible problem is that until very recently if you used the console to > deploy something such as a db pool geronimo didn't save the plan for you. > However, you'd still have to come up with the plan somehow since you > probably need to redeploy. > > Hope this helps > david jencks > > > >> Thanks, >> Juergen >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/clone---update-server-tp24512130s134p24512130.html >> Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >>
