diff --git a/ear/src/plugin-test/maven.xml b/ear/src/plugin-test/maven.xml
index 6ab2261a..339f04bd 100644
--- a/ear/src/plugin-test/maven.xml
+++ b/ear/src/plugin-test/maven.xml
@@ -15,55 +15,8 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
  -->
-<project xmlns:j="jelly:core" 
-         xmlns:u="jelly:util" 
-         xmlns:x="jelly:xml"
-         xmlns:assert="assert"
-         xmlns:j2ee="j2ee">
-
-  <goal name="testPlugin" prereqs="test-ear">
-    <attainGoal name="clean"/>
-  </goal>
-  
-  <goal name="test-ear">
-    <attainGoal name="ear"/>
-
-    <!-- tests that the ear is generated -->
-    <assert:assertFileExists file="${maven.build.dir}/test-maven-ear-plugin-1.0-SNAPSHOT.ear"/>
-    
-    <!-- unzip the ear and look for the jars -->
-    <j:set var="earFile" 
-      value="${maven.build.dir}/test-maven-ear-plugin-1.0-SNAPSHOT.ear"/>
-    <j:set var="unzipDir" value= "${maven.build.dir}/eartest"/>
-    <mkdir dir="${unzipDir}"/>
-    <unzip src="${earFile}" dest="${unzipDir}"/>
-
-    <!-- check for commons-logging -->
-    <assert:assertFileExists file="${unzipDir}/commons-logging-1.0.3.jar"
-      msg="commons logging was not bundled"/>
-    
-    <!-- check for commons-collections -->
-    <assert:assertFileExists file="${unzipDir}/commons-collections-2.1.jar"
-      msg="commons collections was not bundled"/>
-
-    <!-- check application.xml got a java module in it -->
-    <u:file var="appXml" name="${unzipDir}/META-INF/application.xml"/>
-    <j:new var="saxReader" className="org.dom4j.io.SAXReader" />
-    <j2ee:resolver var="resolver" />
-    ${saxReader.setEntityResolver(resolver)}
-    <x:parse var="applicationDoc" xml="${appXml.toURL()}" SAXReader="${saxReader}" />
-    <x:set var="firstJavaModule" select="string($applicationDoc/application/module/java)"/>
-
-    <assert:assertEquals 
-      expected="commons-collections-2.1.jar" 
-      value="${firstJavaModule}"
-      msg="commons collections was not the first java module"/>
-
-    <!-- check for resources -->
-    <assert:assertFileExists file="${unzipDir}/resource.txt"/>
-
-    <!-- check for the LICENSE -->
-    <assert:assertFileExists file="${unzipDir}/META-INF/LICENSE.txt"/>
-
+<project xmlns:util="jelly:util" xmlns:maven="jelly:maven" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:assert="assert" xmlns:ant="jelly:ant">
+  <goal name="testPlugin">
+    <maven:reactor basedir="${basedir}" includes="test*/project.xml" goals="testPlugin" banner="Test" ignoreFailures="false"/>
   </goal>
 </project>
diff --git a/ear/src/plugin-test/project.xml b/ear/src/plugin-test/project.xml
index e84e833c..3f9aadcc 100644
--- a/ear/src/plugin-test/project.xml
+++ b/ear/src/plugin-test/project.xml
@@ -21,79 +21,22 @@
 <project>
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <name>Test project for Maven Ear Plugin</name>
-  <id>test-maven-ear-plugin</id>
-  <currentVersion>1.0-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <groupId>maven</groupId>
+  <currentVersion>1.0</currentVersion>
   <organization>
-    <name>Nettec</name>
-    <url>http://www.nettec.net</url>
+    <name>Apache Software Foundation</name>
+    <url>http://www.apache.org/</url>
+    <logo>http://maven.apache.org/images/apache-maven-project.png</logo>
   </organization>
-  <inceptionYear>2002</inceptionYear>
-  <package>net.nettec.marsh.begin</package>
-  <shortDescription>Marsh Begin TTS Maven</shortDescription>
-  <description>TTS Begin</description>
-  <url/>
-  <issueTrackingUrl>http://bugzilla</issueTrackingUrl>
-  <siteAddress>www.nettec.net</siteAddress>
-  <siteDirectory/>
-  <distributionDirectory/>
+  <inceptionYear>2001</inceptionYear>
+  <package>org.apache.maven</package>
+  <logo>http://maven.apache.org/images/maven.gif</logo>
+  <description>Test for Maven Ear plugin</description>
+  <shortDescription>Test for Maven Ear plugin</shortDescription>
+  <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/ear/</url>
+  <siteDirectory>/www/maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/ear/</siteDirectory>
   <repository>
-    <connection>scm:cvs:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic:maven</connection>
-    <url>http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/maven/</url>
+    <connection>scm:cvs:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic:maven-plugins/ear/</connection>
+    <url>http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/maven-plugins/ear/</url>
   </repository>
-  <versions/>
-  <mailingLists/>
-  <developers>
-    <developer>
-      <name>Nathan Coast</name>
-      <id>nathanc</id>
-      <email>nathan.coast@blueyonder.co.uk</email>
-      <organization>Shadow Solutions</organization>
-      <role>Java Developer</role>
-    </developer>
-  </developers>
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0.3</version>
-      <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging.html</url>
-      <properties>
-        <ear.bundle>true</ear.bundle>
-      </properties>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
-      <version>2.1</version>
-      <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/</url>
-      <properties>
-        <ear.module>true</ear.module>
-      </properties>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-jelly</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-jelly-tags-xml</artifactId>
-      <version>20030211.142705</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <!-- Needed for the entity resolver -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>maven</groupId>
-      <artifactId>maven-j2ee-plugin</artifactId>
-      <version>1.4</version>
-      <type>plugin</type>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
-  <build>
-    <nagEmailAddress>nathan.coast@nettec.net</nagEmailAddress>
-    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
-    <unitTestSourceDirectory>src/test</unitTestSourceDirectory>
-    <!-- Resources that are packaged up inside the JAR file -->
-    <resources>
-      <resource>
-        <directory>src/resources</directory>
-        <targetPath></targetPath>
-        <includes><include>*.txt</include></includes>
-      </resource>
-    </resources>
-  </build>
-</project>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ear/src/plugin-test/LICENSE.txt b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/LICENSE.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from ear/src/plugin-test/LICENSE.txt
rename to ear/src/plugin-test/test01/LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/maven.xml b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/maven.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da6a102a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/maven.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+<!-- 
+/*
+ * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ * 
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+ -->
+<project xmlns:j="jelly:core" 
+         xmlns:u="jelly:util" 
+         xmlns:x="jelly:xml"
+         xmlns:assert="assert"
+         xmlns:j2ee="j2ee">
+
+  <goal name="testPlugin" prereqs="test-ear">
+    <attainGoal name="clean"/>
+  </goal>
+  
+  <goal name="test-ear">
+    <attainGoal name="ear"/>
+
+    <!-- tests that the ear is generated -->
+    <assert:assertFileExists file="${maven.build.dir}/${maven.final.name}.ear"/>
+    
+    <!-- unzip the ear and look for the jars -->
+    <j:set var="earFile" 
+      value="${maven.build.dir}/${maven.final.name}.ear"/>
+    <j:set var="unzipDir" value= "${maven.build.dir}/eartest"/>
+    <mkdir dir="${unzipDir}"/>
+    <unzip src="${earFile}" dest="${unzipDir}"/>
+
+    <!-- check for commons-logging -->
+    <assert:assertFileExists file="${unzipDir}/commons-logging-1.0.3.jar"
+      msg="commons logging was not bundled"/>
+    
+    <!-- check for commons-collections -->
+    <assert:assertFileExists file="${unzipDir}/commons-collections-2.1.jar"
+      msg="commons collections was not bundled"/>
+
+    <!-- check application.xml got a java module in it -->
+    <u:file var="appXml" name="${unzipDir}/META-INF/application.xml"/>
+    <j:new var="saxReader" className="org.dom4j.io.SAXReader" />
+    <j2ee:resolver var="resolver" />
+    ${saxReader.setEntityResolver(resolver)}
+    <x:parse var="applicationDoc" xml="${appXml.toURL()}" SAXReader="${saxReader}" />
+    <x:set var="firstJavaModule" select="string($applicationDoc/application/module/java)"/>
+
+    <assert:assertEquals 
+      expected="commons-collections-2.1.jar" 
+      value="${firstJavaModule}"
+      msg="commons collections was not the first java module"/>
+
+    <!-- check for resources -->
+    <assert:assertFileExists file="${unzipDir}/resource.txt"/>
+
+    <!-- check for the LICENSE -->
+    <assert:assertFileExists file="${unzipDir}/META-INF/LICENSE.txt"/>
+
+  </goal>
+</project>
diff --git a/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/project.properties b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/project.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ee45d71b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/project.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+# 
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+# 
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#  
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+maven.deployable.component=${maven.final.name}.ear
+maven.j2ee.ear.appxml=${maven.conf.dir}/application.xml
+maven.ear.appxml.generate=true
+# note the override below is needed, as the ear plugin redefines the licenseFile in
+# it's own project.properties, and running plugin:test would otherwise fail
+maven.license.licenseFile=${basedir}/LICENSE.txt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/project.xml b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/project.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..34e00e3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/project.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- 
+/*
+ * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ * 
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+ -->
+
+
+<project>
+  <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
+  <name>Test project for Maven Ear Plugin 01</name>
+  <artifactId>test-maven-ear-plugin-01</artifactId>
+  <organization>
+    <name>Nettec</name>
+    <url>http://www.nettec.net</url>
+  </organization>
+  <inceptionYear>2002</inceptionYear>
+  <package>net.nettec.marsh.begin</package>
+  <shortDescription>Marsh Begin TTS Maven</shortDescription>
+  <description>TTS Begin</description>
+  <url/>
+  <developers>
+    <developer>
+      <name>Nathan Coast</name>
+      <id>nathanc</id>
+      <email>nathan.coast@blueyonder.co.uk</email>
+      <organization>Shadow Solutions</organization>
+      <role>Java Developer</role>
+    </developer>
+  </developers>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+      <version>1.0.3</version>
+      <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging.html</url>
+      <properties>
+        <ear.bundle>true</ear.bundle>
+      </properties>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
+      <version>2.1</version>
+      <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/</url>
+      <properties>
+        <ear.module>true</ear.module>
+      </properties>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>commons-jelly</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-jelly-tags-xml</artifactId>
+      <version>20030211.142705</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- Needed for the entity resolver -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-j2ee-plugin</artifactId>
+      <version>1.4</version>
+      <type>plugin</type>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
+    <unitTestSourceDirectory>src/test</unitTestSourceDirectory>
+    <!-- Resources that are packaged up inside the JAR file -->
+    <resources>
+      <resource>
+        <directory>src/resources</directory>
+        <targetPath></targetPath>
+        <includes><include>*.txt</include></includes>
+      </resource>
+    </resources>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/ear/src/plugin-test/src/application/META-INF/.cvsignore b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/src/application/META-INF/.cvsignore
similarity index 100%
rename from ear/src/plugin-test/src/application/META-INF/.cvsignore
rename to ear/src/plugin-test/test01/src/application/META-INF/.cvsignore
diff --git a/ear/src/plugin-test/src/application/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/src/application/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
similarity index 100%
rename from ear/src/plugin-test/src/application/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
rename to ear/src/plugin-test/test01/src/application/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
diff --git a/ear/src/plugin-test/src/resources/resource.txt b/ear/src/plugin-test/test01/src/resources/resource.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from ear/src/plugin-test/src/resources/resource.txt
rename to ear/src/plugin-test/test01/src/resources/resource.txt