What are the specifics steps for manual deployment ?

Hello folks,

With a newbe questions/request:

Can anybody refer me to any document/link which indicate me which are the steps to do a manual deployment without using the deployment tool (deploy ) ?

I'm using Geronimo 2.1.3 with Tomcat 6

I tried to follow the oldie/classic example of building a dynamic project by hand (no IDE's, nor deploy tool at all) just using the java, javac and jar command line tools.

So I tried to manually define the basic directory deployment structure shown in 4.X, 5.X versions of Tomcat:

webapps
--MyApp_Directory
---WEB-INF
----web.xml
----geronimo-web.xml
----lib
----classes
----com
----example
-------web
----------classA.class
-------model
----------classB.class
 
But I couldn't find any "tomcat" directory in Geronimo installation directory which I can define inside that structure.

So the question is .... am I assuming correctly that I can manually define the deployment structure as I can do it in older versions of Tomcat?
Or do I have to use the deployment tool (deploy) in order to manually deploy any application ?

Any guidance would be very appreciated.
Regards
Carlos