Pro Apache Geronimo:

This book explores Apache Geronimo, the open source lightweight J2EE/Java EE 5 Web application server. Geronimo's GBeans enable one to deploy sophisticated server-side enterprise Java applications and perform special enterprise-level Java development for transactional support. This title is a must-have because it is one of the first to cover Apache Geronimo in such detail.

"Pro Apache Geronimo" teaches you all about using Apache Geronimo, the open source lightweight J2EE/Java EE 5 web application server. Geronimos GBeans enable you to deploy sophisticated server-side enterprise Java applications and perform special enterprise-level Java development for transactional support. This book is a must-have because it Is the first book to cover Apache Geronimo in such detail Features lots of code samples to learn from and apply to your work Explores relevant internals

Geronimo is unique in that its the only open source lightweight deployment tool around. It also has the capabilities for Spring compliance, so you Spring developers can deploy your web applications using Geronimo. Meanwhile, JBoss is the only other significant open source J2EE container out there. Geronimo, now backed by IBM, is incorporated into IBMs WebSphere Community Edition/Package.