Create a Geronimo plugin should be the best way to do it, or you might extend the Sharelib gbean, so that you could do anything you like :-)
2010/8/26 Kevan Miller <kevan.mil...@gmail.com> > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:50 PM, David Jencks wrote: > > > > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Anil Chawla wrote: > > > >> Ivan, thanks for the prompt response. Our intention is to provide our > users with a WAR/EAR file and perhaps a simple startup script that they can > edit to set the correct environment variables for their environment. It is > good to know that there is a work-around like this but it might be a little > too complicated for our users. > >> > > > > If you are willing to distribute your app as a "predeployed" geronimo > plugin rather than an app that must be deployed on each server, you can > include this config.xml info in the plugin. The easy way is to use a maven > project and the car-maven-plugin to package your app as a plugin. The > geronimo build has lots and lots of examples of how to set up the config.xml > bits and default values for config-substitutions.properties such as the > plugins/tomcat/tomcat subproject. > > Right. To summarize, deploying as a geronimo plugin could simplify things > to the point that a user would only need to modify a > config-substitutions.properties property (or you provide a tool to do this > or you allow the plugin deployment plan to be customized, prior to > installation within the geronimo server. > > --kevan > -- Ivan
