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-The Maven team is pleased to announce the EAR plugin 1.4 release!
-
-http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/ear/
-
-The Maven EAR plugin helps with building J2EE EAR files.
-
-Fixed/changed in this version
-
-o Introduced ear.module property to mark jars as being java client modules
-o The ear.bundle property now just includes the jar in the EAR
-o Added to the plugin tests a check to make sure the ear includes the jars marked by
- ear.bundle and ear.module and that ear.module generates a java module in the generated
- application.xml
-
-Note that this plugin has been tested with Maven 1.0 rc2 SNAPSHOT. Using it with
-another version of Maven is at your own risk! :-)
-
-You can download and install the EAR plugin by using
-
-maven -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-ear-plugin -Dversion=1.4 plugin:download
-
-Have fun!
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