creating a ear file around a war file

[Mark Tobin]

I have a war file I want to wrap it in a ear file to deploy on Jboss. I have googled and there are lots of people asking the same thing but not many answers.

[Carl Trusiak]

Well, put it in the ear. The only thing you really need to do beyond the normal specs for a War is to include a jboss-web.xml in the web-inf directory specifying the Web Root Example :

 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss-web PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD Web Application 2.4//EN"
        "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-web_4_0.dtd">
<jboss-web>
    <context-root>Example</context-root>
</jboss-web>
   

[Mark Tobin]

Thanks Carl I created the war then created the ear

jar cvf myear-3.0.0.ear . in the directory where I had my war file and a META-INF directory but the bit i missed out was the jboss-web.xml in my war WEB-INF folder, I will add that now.