Can we include one EAR file into other EAR file

[ram gaurav]

Hi

I have created one application named "abc.war" and integrated that into "myApp.ear". I know that we can include as many WARS in EARS file.My question is :

"Can we include one EAR file into other EAR file or can we only be able to include only WAR and JAR file in EAR file."

Thanks
Ram

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Ram,
No, you cannot include a .ear file within another .ear file. You can include it's contents (jars and wars) and merge the application.xml to produce a similar effect.

[Deepak Bala]

Originally posted by Jeanne Boyarsky:
Ram,
No, you cannot include a .ear file within another .ear file. You can include it's contents (jars and wars) and merge the application.xml to produce a similar effect.

Literally speaking, it would work out since they are all just zip files but as Jeanne mentioned it is of no practical use. You should merge the application XML or if you just want to use the application's library, copy the jar file into the ear file and update the manifest entries.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Originally posted by John Meyers:
Literally speaking, it would work out since they are all just zip files

True. Of course literally speaking, you could shove a .NET file in there too

[Konstantin Chikarev]

But you can include .sar file into .ear

[ram gaurav]

Thanks to all.

So what i understand is that We cannot include an EAR into other EAR.

Am i right.?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Originally posted by ram gaurav:
So what i understand is that We cannot include an EAR into other EAR.

Am i right.?

You are right. Sorry for the tangent after that...