Creating .ear file from zip file

[Dipti Mogare]

Hi,
I am having a zip file. Zip file is actually binary of the application. Zip file contains folders bin,doc,server,sql. I want to create .ear file from zip file.
.ear file created should be having all folder structure of .ear file i.e. META-INF, application.xml
So how to create .ear file from zip file, so that .ear file can be deployed on JBoss Application server.

[Rahul Mahindrakar]

Hi

The ear file is not just a "zipped file".

It has to follow a structure of its own and also it has additional files for "information" for the application servers.

You might need to extract the zip file. create the necessary ear dependent files. Use a tool like maven to create the ear file

Br
Rahul Mahindrakar

[Dipti Mogare]

Hi rahul,

Which maven plugin I can use to create .ear.
Because I am having bin,server,doc,sql folder in the zip file.
bin folder contains exe and batch files. server contains server/default/deploy and sql contains database related queries.
And the ear file structure should ideally having META-INF folder, then war and ejbs.
So how to create all that?

[Rahul Mahindrakar]

Hi

.ear stands for Enterprise Archive which is kind of a "java solution"

What are you trying to deploy here. It does not seem to be a java application.

[Dipti Mogare]

Actually i was having one java enterprise application source code. Using build.xml i got the zip file. But modifying the build.xml of source code to get .ear is not working.