The "for the impatient" section of the wiki has the following instructions
$ svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/trunk geronimo $ cd geronimo $ svn update $ maven $ mkdir target $ (cd target && jar xf ~/.maven/repository/geronimo/jars/geronimo-assembly-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar) $ java -jar target/bin/server.jar org/apache/geronimo/Server My question is , why do i have to create a target folder , when i can simply run the server by ~/geronimo/modules/assembly/target/geronimo-1.0-SNAPSHOT/bin deployer.jar org/apache/geronimo/Server Since i am planning to update the wiki for newbies, i would like to know if i am missing something and why i should create the target folder? Thanks karan
