On Sep 15, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > Hello all: > I am looking at the options I have to use geronimo for some J2EE apps. > > Currently we are running regular web applications on tomcat. I want to use > geronimo as a tomcat > replacement. Modifiying the existing applications to deploy on geronimo is a > path > that I like to avoid. I have few ideas, and I hope one of them would > work. > > 1- deploy the existing applications to geronimo without using deploy plan > (some > of them contains security realm "jetspeed is one of them"). Is this > possible ?
No. You'll need a deployment plan, if you need to map security roles, database resources, etc. > > 2- Use the existing tomcat instance for geronimo. If what I am thinking > about is possible, I don't have to modify the existing tomcat, just > configure > geronimo to use it (too good to be true !). Sorry, no. ;-) > > The final result wold allow me to run webapp only on tomcat, and I can > deploy j2ee apps through G2.2 deploy command. > > Any ideas ? FYI, there is a minimal assembly of Geronimo (which only contains web app functionality). Or you can generate a custom assembly from a full server. Regardless, except for simple applications, you'll need a deployment plan. --kevan
