Ear

Description

An extension of the Jar task with special treatment for files that should end up in an Enterprise Application archive.

(The Ear task is a shortcut for specifying the particular layout of a EAR file. The same thing can be accomplished by using the prefix and fullpath attributes of zipfilesets in a Zip or Jar task.)

The extended zipfileset element from the zip task (with attributes prefix, fullpath, and src) is available in the Ear task.

Parameters

Attribute Description Required
destfile the EAR file to create. Yes
appxml The deployment descriptor to use (META-INF/application.xml). Yes, unless update is set to true
basedir the directory from which to jar the files. No
compress Not only store data but also compress them, defaults to true. Unless you set the keepcompression attribute to false, this will apply to the entire archive, not only the files you've added while updating. No
keepcompression For entries coming from existing archives (like nested zipfilesets or while updating the archive), keep the compression as it has been originally instead of using the compress attribute. Defaults false. Since Ant 1.6 No
encoding The character encoding to use for filenames inside the archive. Defaults to UTF8. It is not recommended to change this value as the created archive will most likely be unreadable for Java otherwise. No
filesonly Store only file entries, defaults to false No
includes comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be included. All files are included when omitted. No
includesfile the name of a file. Each line of this file is taken to be an include pattern No
excludes comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be excluded. No files (except default excludes) are excluded when omitted. No
excludesfile the name of a file. Each line of this file is taken to be an exclude pattern No
defaultexcludes indicates whether default excludes should be used or not ("yes"/"no"). Default excludes are used when omitted. No
manifest the manifest file to use. No
update indicates whether to update or overwrite the destination file if it already exists. Default is "false". No
duplicate behavior when a duplicate file is found. Valid values are "add", "preserve", and "fail". The default value is "add". No

Nested elements

metainf

The nested metainf element specifies a FileSet. All files included in this fileset will end up in the META-INF directory of the ear file. If this fileset includes a file named MANIFEST.MF, the file is ignored and you will get a warning.

Example

    <ear destfile="${build.dir}/myapp.ear" appxml="${src.dir}/metadata/application.xml">
      <fileset dir="${build.dir}" includes="*.jar,*.war"/>
    </ear>

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