Maven EAR Plugin

This plugin generates J2EE Enterprise Archive (EAR) file. It can also generate the deployment descriptor file (e.g. application.xml).

The EAR plugin supports the following artifacts:

  • ejb
  • war
  • jar
  • ejb-client
  • rar
  • ejb3
  • par
  • sar
  • wsr
  • har

For available configuration options for these artifacts, please see the modules configuration.

For more information about the J2EE technology, please visit http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/Intro.

Goals Overview

EAR Plugin has two goals:

Usage

Instructions on how to use the EAR Plugin can be found here. See also the test suite.

Examples

To provide you with better understanding on some usages of the EAR Plugin, you can take a look into the following examples: