EAR

Enterprise Archive

J2EE applications are deployed as EAR files to an application server. The Application Assembler role is responsible for packaging an application's WAR, EJB JARs and the deployment descriptor into an EAR. Industry convention is to name the EAR file with an extension of ".ear".

• Ant's EAR task
• Maven's EAR plugin
• earutils project

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