maven-ear-plugin and JBoss AS 7

Question

I am in the process of migrating to JBoss AS 7, and using maven build, seems to me the maven-ear-plugin does not support JBoss AS 7 yet. By default it uses JBoss AS 4.

Answer 1

I don't think the maven-ear-plugin is JBoss specific. But you have to specify the JavaEE 6 in your configuration:

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-ear-plugin
  2.6
  
    6
    lib
    
      
        my.group
        my-web
        /my
    
  

To get a working example of a JBoss7 EAR you can create a new project using the following archetype: org.jboss.spec.archetypes:jboss-javaee6-ear-webapp:7.0.2.CR1 The example shown above is taken from this archetype.