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

Cargo features:

• A Java API to start/stop/configure Java 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 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.
• Maven2/Maven3 plugins wrapping the Java API for configuring, starting, stopping and deploying applications to all supported containers.