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.
Does this cause problem?
I am also still trying to figure out as I go along how to structure my archives, right now having issues related to the changes in the way JBoss AS 7 class loader works.
I don't think the maven-ear-plugin
is JBoss specific. But you have to specify the JavaEE <version>6</version>
in your configuration:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<version>6</version><!-- Java EE 6 -->
<defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
<modules>
<webModule>
<groupId>my.group</groupId>
<artifactId>my-web</artifactId>
<contextRoot>/my</contextRoot>
</webModule>
</modules>
</configuration>
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.