Hi,

I am trying to deploy an exploded EAR application with the traditional J2EE structure (with Jar+EJB+War inside EAR) using maven, using the plugin, jboss-as-maven-plugin version 7.1.0.Beta1b. I could not find a goal that supports deploying exploded directory in the plugin reference.

The current plugin configuration that successfully deploys a .ear file is as below.

<plugin>

                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

                <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>

                <version>2.6</version>

                <configuration>

                    <version>6</version>

                    <defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>

                    <modules>

                     <webModule>

                       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>

                       <artifactId>${webmodule.name}</artifactId>

                       <contextRoot>/myWebApp</contextRoot>

                     </webModule>

                    </modules>

                </configuration>

            </plugin>

The current JBoss AS 7 Plugin is

          <plugin>

               <groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId>

               <artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId>

               <version>7.1.0.Beta1b</version>

               <inherited>true</inherited>

               <configuration>

                    <hostname>localhost</hostname>

                    <port>9999</port>

                    <filenames>${project.build.finalName}.ear</filenames>

               </configuration>

                <executions>

                    <execution>

                        <phase>package</phase>

                        <goals>

                            <goal>deploy</goal>

                        </goals>

                    </execution>

                </executions>

            </plugin>

The above plugins generates and deploys the ear file.

Now I want to deploy the exploded directory. For that purpose, I have modified the maven-ear-plugin as follows (added two elements, unpackTypes and workDirectory)

<plugin>

                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

                <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>

                <version>2.6</version>

                <configuration>

                    <version>6</version>

                    <defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>

                    <unpackTypes>war,ejb</unpackTypes>

                    <workDirectory>target/${project.build.finalName}.ear</workDirectory>

                    <modules>

                     <webModule>

                       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>

                       <artifactId>${webmodule.name}</artifactId>

                       <contextRoot>/myWebApp</contextRoot>

                     </webModule>

                    </modules>

                </configuration>

            </plugin>

But it fails and complains (No such file or directory).

Can some one guide me on how to deploy the exploded directory in this case ?

Thanks,

Shameer