Chapter 10. Administration

Java EE server administration can be a daunting task. Geronimo proves otherwise. Thanks to the Geronimo project's foremost guiding principle—ease of use, Geronimo provides a powerful and user-friendly Administration Console that simplifies various administrative tasks, be it administering the web container, managing the applications, or monitoring the server. In this chapter, we will go through the common administration tasks in an application server and see how these tasks are performed in Geronimo. You will learn about:

• The Administration Console

• Web server administration

• JMS server administration

• Monitoring the server

• GShell