| Property | Optional? | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven.ear.final.name | Name of the generated EAR file. | ${maven.final.name}.ear | |
| maven.ear.manifest | Yes | Location of the manifest file to be used within the ear file. | ${maven.ear.src}/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF |
| maven.ear.appxml | Yes |
Location of the application.xml file
to be used within the ear file.
|
${maven.ear.src}/META-INF/application.xml |
| maven.ear.appxml.generate | Yes |
Indicates if application.xml files should
be autogenerated
|
false |
| maven.ear.appxml.version | Yes | Inserts the doctype header depending on the specified version. | 1.3 |
| maven.ear.displayname | Yes |
Display name of the application to be used
when application.xml file is autogenerated
|
${pom.artifactId} |
| maven.ear.resources | Yes | Directory that resources are copied to during the build.NOTE: cannot have the same value of ${maven.ear.src}! | ${maven.build.dir}/ear |
| maven.ear.src | Yes | Single directory for extra files to include in the EAR. NOTE: cannot have the same value of ${maven.ear.resources}! | ${maven.src.dir}/application |
| maven.ear.appxml.encoding | Yes |
Character encoding for the auto-generated application.xml file.
|
UTF-8 |
| maven.ear.descriptordir | Yes |
Directory where the application.xml file will be auto-generated (only if maven.ear.appxml.generate is true).
|
${maven.build.dir} |
| Property | Description | See |
|---|---|---|
| maven.build.dir | where the component will be assembled | maven.build.dir |
| maven.final.name | The assembled component will be ${maven.build.dir}/${maven.final.name}.ear |
maven.final.name |
You must tell Maven what artifact you want to include in the ear. This operation is type sensitive. Maven can bundle in ear artifacts of following types: jar, war, ejb, rar, sar. Artifacts of other types are ignored. This is achieved by specifying meta-information in the POM, using the following syntax:
Those artifacts will be also "visible" during generation
of application.xml file. In case of war artifacts you can also
specify context root which will be set in application.xml file:
Note that by default the artifacts will be bundled in the EAR's root directory. To change the location where an artifact is bundled, please use the ear.bundle.dir property:
(it does not matter if the value of ear.bundle.dir starts with a slash (/) or not - it will always be relative to the root of the EAR)
It is also possible to change the name by which the dependency will be bundles using the ear.bundle.name property:
In the example above, the dependency will be bundled simply as aJar and not jarArtifactId.aversion; note that ear.bundle.name and ear.bundle.dir can be used together:
Finally, please note that if a jar is a java client module, you will need to declare
it using the ear.module property, rather than ear.bundle: