How to create APP-INF/lib structure in ear

[Sowbakia Nagaraj]

How to create APP-INF/lib structure? and How to put the jar inside of APP-INF/lib folder? while making the ear file with ant scripts.
Thanks!

[Martijn Verburg]

Are you sure its the APP-INF directory you want to create? I would think either a META-INF or WEB-INF is what you're after...

[Peter Johnson]

Here's what I do. I first build my EAR structure on disk, usually in target/xxx.ear. Then I use the jar task to create the EAR. This provides several benefits:

* I know exactly what is in my EAR
* I can choose to deploy the EAR as either an archive file, or as the exploded directory
* I don't have to unpack my ear to verify that its structure is correct

[Carol Enderlin]

Take a look at the code examples for the war task in the ant manual. They include a zipfileset with a prefix specified (for your 'APP-INF/lib'). As I recall, WebLogic server uses or used APP-INF/lib.

   
<zipfileset dir="src/graphics/images/gifs"
              prefix="images"/>