how to create ear file, and include war and jar files inside that

Question

I am trying to create an EAR file from the command prompt. I have used

jar -cvf myServletWAR.ear . 

But my question is, how can I get this EAR

Answer 1

One of my EAR files has structure as follows:

app.ear
  - APP-INF
    - lib
      // libraries (.jar) here
  - META-INF
    - MANIFEST.MF
    - weblogic-application.xml
  - module1.war
  - customlib.jar

This archive is being deployed onto WebLogic 10.3.

Remeber .ear is just a ZIP file, so you can always create it this way, although it seems messy.