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The documentation you'll find on this site is for the latest development version of Cargo (not released yet). The documentation for the relased versions of Cargo is available on the Downloads page.

Mission

Cargo is a thin wrapper around existing containers (e.g. J2EE containers). It provides different APIs to easily manipulate containers.

Cargo provides the following APIs:

A Java API to start/stop/configure Java Containers and deploy modules into them. We also offer Ant tasks, Maven 1, Maven 2 plugins. Intellij IDEA and Netbeans plugins are in the sandbox.
A Java API to parse/create/merge J2EE Modules

Check the utilisation page to understand what you can use Cargo for.

Development Status

Current Versions

click in the status column to get release notes:

Version	Status	Comments
Core 0.9		Released on 10/03/07
Maven2 plugin 0.3		Released on 10/03/07
Ant and Maven1 plugin 0.9		Released on 10/03/07

All released versions are available here.

Container Support

List of supported containers and the extensions that are implemented for each container (Java API, Ant tasks and Maven2/Maven3 plugin). The specified version is the version of the associated Cargo module where the feature was first made available (for example 0.2 for the Maven2 plugin means version 0.2 of the Cargo Maven 2 extension release). Click on a container's name to see a detailed list of features it supports.

Container	Java API (version)	Ant tasks (version)	Maven 2 plugin (version)
Geronimo 1.x	0.8	0.8	0.8
Geronimo 2.x	1.0.4	1.0.4	1.0.4
Geronimo 3.x	1.2.4	1.2.4	1.2.4
Glassfish 2.x	1.0.1	1.0.1	1.0.1
Glassfish 3.x	1.0.1	1.0.1	1.0.1
Glassfish 4.x	1.4.0	1.4.0	1.4.0
JBoss 3.x	0.7	0.7	0.7
JBoss 4.x	0.7	0.7	0.7
JBoss 4.2.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
JBoss 5.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
JBoss 5.1.x	1.0.1	1.0.1	1.0.1
JBoss 6.x	1.0.1	1.0.1	1.0.1
JBoss 6.1.x	1.1.3	1.1.3	1.1.3
JBoss 7.x	1.1.2	1.1.2	1.1.2
JBoss 7.1.x	1.1.4	1.1.4	1.1.4
Jetty 4.x	0.1	1.0	0.2
Jetty 5.x	0.8	1.0	0.2
Jetty 6.x	0.8	1.0	0.2
Jetty 7.x	1.0.1	1.0.1	1.0.1
Jetty 8.x	1.1.3	1.1.3	1.1.3
Jetty 9.x	1.3.0	1.3.0	1.3.0
jo! 1.x	0.5	0.5	0.1
JOnAS 4.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
JOnAS 5.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
JRun 4.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
Oc4J 9.x	0.3	0.3	0.3
Oc4j 10.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
Resin 2.x	0.1	0.1	0.1
Resin 3.x	0.1	0.1	0.1
Resin 3.1.x	1.2.0	1.2.0	1.2.0
Resin 4.x	1.4.0	1.4.0	1.4.0
Tomcat 4.x	0.1	0.1	0.1
Tomcat 5.x	0.1	0.1	0.1
Tomcat 6.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
Tomcat 7.x	1.0.2	1.0.2	1.0.2
WebLogic 8.x	0.3	0.3	0.1
WebLogic 9.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
WebLogic 10.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
WebLogic 10.3.x	1.0	1.0	1.0
WebLogic 12.x	1.2.4	1.2.4	1.2.4
WebSphere 8.5.x	1.3.0	1.3.0	1.3.0

Some containers are tested dialy on the Codehaus Cargo Continous Integration System; for these the container's page also shows which version is tested.

News

CARGO 1.4.0 is here!

Dear CARGO enthusiasts

Almost two months after CARGO 1.3.3, we've gone a long way through CARGO 1.4.0. Major enhancements, changes and bug fixes include:

Core:

[CARGO-365] - CARGO should check status of application server before attempting to start container
[CARGO-1068] - Add support for port offset for containers

Containers - Glassfish:

[CARGO-1189] - Glassfish jvm-options should not be quoted
[CARGO-1190] - Glassfish <systemProperties> should be XML-encoded when added to domain.xml
[CARGO-1191] - Add support for Glassfish 4.x

Containers - Resin:
- [CARGO-760] - Add support for Resin 4.x
Daemon:

[CARGO-1188] - Add -nologging option to disable logging for standalone daemon war
[CARGO-1180] - Add support for continuously viewing logs
[CARGO-1181] - Add support for restarting offline containers
[CARGO-1182 and CARGO-1184] - Change the Daemon properties in the Maven2/Maven3 plugin configuration to have a proper configuration
[CARGO-1187] - Daemon start/stop mojos does not have dependency resolution
[CARGO-1185] - Add support for extra and shared classpaths
[CARGO-1186] - Add support for adding classpath locations at verbatim
[CARGO-1183] - Fix integration test Cargo Daemon Integration Tests - Browser
[CARGO-1192] - Daemon doesn't work if the Maven2/Maven3 client and Daemon server run different OSes

Extensions - ANT tasks:

[CARGO-991] - Remove the start task's wait argument

Extensions - Maven2/Maven3 plugin:

[CARGO-1116] - Remove the deprecated <deployable> elements under <deployer> and <configuration>
[CARGO-967] - Use the tested container downloadable as the default for the ZipUrlInstaller
[CARGO-986] - Remove cargo:start's wait argument

To upgrade to this new version:

Users of the Maven2/Maven3 plugin simply need to use the CARGO plugin version 1.4.0.
Users of the Java API can download the new Uberjar from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/cargo/cargo-core-uberjar/1.4.0/cargo-core-uberjar-1.4.0.jar
Similarly, users of the ANT tasks can download the new ANT tasks from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/cargo/cargo-ant/1.4.0/cargo-ant-1.4.0.jar
Finally, the ones who want to use the Cargo Daemon can download the webapp from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/cargo/cargo-daemon-webapp/1.4.0/cargo-daemon-webapp-1.4.0.war

IMPORTANT: Users of the ANT tasks and Maven2/Maven3 plugin should consider CARGO-991 and CARGO-986, i.e. the removal of the long-deprecated wait argument. If you want the container to start and keep on running, please use run instead of start.

IMPORTANT: Users of the Maven2/Maven3 plugin should consider CARGO-1116 when upgrading, i.e. the removal of the deprecated <deployable> elements under <deployer> and <configuration>. All <deployable> elements are now under the main <configuration> element.

Enjoy!

CARGO 1.3.3 is here!

Dear CARGO enthusiasts

CARGO 1.3.3 is here! This new version features the below fixes and improvements:

Containers - General
- The configuration files option now overrides all existing files (CARGO-1176)
Containers - Glassfish
- Glassfish deployment does not fail anymore on Windows when context is / (CARGO-1179)
Containers - JBoss
- Support for the append parameter has been added to the JBoss logger configuration (CARGO-825)
- JBoss 7.x and 7.1.x now support JBossPropertySet.CONFIGURATION (CARGO-1174)
Containers - JOnAS
- JOnAS 5.x remote deployer can now properly undeploy when jonas.development is true (CARGO-1177)
- JOnAS 5.x remote deployer's issues with undeployment in Windows have been fixed (CARGO-1178)
Containers - Tomcat
- The Tomcat 7.x remote container now supports contexts with versions (CARGO-1172)
Containers - WebLogic
- Support for the property ServletPropertySet.USERS has been added to WebLogic (CARGO-1170)
Containers - WebSphere
- Support for the property ServletPropertySet.USERS has been added to WebSphere (CARGO-91)
Core - WAR merger
- Upgrade to Servlet Spec 2.4 doesn't break web.xml merging capabilities for NodeMerge strategy anymore (CARGO-1175)
Extensions - ANT tasks
- The file attribute of the deployable element is now optional when undeploying (CARGO-1173)

To upgrade to this new version:

Users of the Maven2/Maven3 plugin simply need to use the CARGO plugin version 1.3.3.
Users of the Java API can download the new Uberjar from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/cargo/cargo-core-uberjar/1.3.3/cargo-core-uberjar-1.3.3.jar
Similarly, users of the ANT tasks can download the new ANT tasks from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/cargo/cargo-ant/1.3.3/cargo-ant-1.3.3.jar
Finally, the ones who want to use the Cargo Daemon can download the webapp from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/cargo/cargo-daemon-webapp/1.3.3/cargo-daemon-webapp-1.3.3.war

Enjoy!