Maven: How to add files to the root inside an EAR with maven-ear-plugin?

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wishihadabettername picture wishihadabettername · Oct 15, 2010 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

I need to add 2 XML files inside an EAR generated with maven-ear-plugin.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen a way to add an arbitrary file to an EAR; the documentation of the plugin which reads "The EAR plugin supports the following artifacts: ejb, war, jar, ejb-client, rar, ejb3, par, sar, wsr and har". There's nothing for adding a regular file.

org.apache.maven.plugins maven-ear-plugin 2.3.1 foo foo 1.4 lib ${parent.groupId} foo-web /foo org.richfaces.framework richfaces-api commons-lang commons-lang

Many thanks in advance.

Answer

Eugene Kuleshov picture Eugene Kuleshov · Oct 15, 2010

In maven-ear-plugin 2.4.2 you can use config elements earSourceDirectory, earSourceExcludes and earSourceIncludes to declare extra files to include in the EAR.

By default you simply place those files to ${basedir}/src/main/application folder.

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