What is Codehaus Cargo?

Cargo is a thin wrapper that allows you to manipulate various type of application containers (J2EE, Java EE, Jakarta EE and others) in a standard way. The portion Codehaus is a reference to the open source community which used to host Cargo when it was first created - We meanwhile moved to Github as Codehaus has shut down.

Cargo provides the following APIs and tools:

• A Java API to start/stop/configure any of the supported containers.
• A Java API to (remotely or locally) deploy modules into these containers, be it a server alone, a farm or a cluster.
• A Java API to parse/create/merge J2EE, Java EE or Jakarta EE modules.
• Ant tasks wrapping the Java API for configuring, starting, stopping and deploying applications to all supported containers.
• A Web interface that wraps the Java API that can be used to configure, start and stop all containers supported by Cargo remotely and at any time.
• A Maven 3 Plugin wrapping the Java API for configuring, starting, stopping and deploying applications to all supported containers and the Cargo Daemon as well as parsing, creating and merging J2EE, Java EE or Jakarta EE modules.

These tools and APIs can be used in a standalone fashion or via various IDEs.

Usage

Cargo is often used to deploy applications to containers from test APIs (such as JUnit), Ant or Maven builds. Cargo can install the container and dependencies needed for your deployment as well. Please find below the links to our Quick Start guides:

• Getting Started for the Maven 3 plugin
• Cookbook for implementing functional testing with the Cargo Java API and JUnit
• Examples for the Cargo Ant tasks
• Introduction to the Cargo Daemon

Development Status

Current Versions

You can click on the version number to access the Downloads page and in the status column to get release notes:

Version	Status	Comments
1.10.13		Released on 27 April 2024

All released versions are available here.

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