Holds the JARs used to start the server and run the offline deploy tool

The hot deploy directory. You can copy applications here and Geronimo will try to deploy them automatically.

Presently, just holds a file pointing to the Geronimo web site for the documentation.

Holds libraries required to load the most basic parts of Geronimo -- the foundation (or "kernel") which in turn loads all the other application, resource, and service modules.

Holds applications and modules that can be run in Geronimo, as well as shared libraries which the application and modules can refer to. Not everything in this directory will be loaded -- each library will be loaded only when a module that uses it is loaded. You might add entries here for database drivers or libraries that should be visible to multiple application modules without being separately distributed with each application. The Geronimo deployment tools and the Geronimo plugin installer will automatically copy applications or modules into the repository when they are installed.

Holds a reference copy of the XML Schema definitions for all the J2EE and Geronimo deployment descriptors, as well as the definitions of all the Geronimo configuration files.

Holds some files pertaining to the runtime state of the server, such as configuration files, the default security realm, log files, the transaction log, etc.