What is good anatomy of a JBoss EAR?

[minmay]

I am deploying my ears, however my ears have several dependencies:

1) a datasource
2) a hibernate sar

I would like my ear to be a completely independent "thing."

How would I would package my ear to internally include the
datasource and sar, so that I don' t have to seperately manage
the other resources upon deployment?

[slaboure]

pack all these files (ear, sar, etc.) in a single JAR and deploy it.

This is called the russian dolls packaging

[minmay]

I gather you suggest to deploy my ear as a sar.

How would I handle the order in which dependent modules
are loaded?

naturally, it should be:

1) datasource
2) hibernate sar
3) ear