The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the
Apache Maven EAR Plugin, version 3.0.0

This plugin generates Java EE Enterprise Archive (EAR) file. It can also
generate the deployment descriptor file (e.g. application.xml).

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-ear-plugin
  3.0.0

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Release Notes – Maven EAR Plugin – Version 3.0.0

Bugs:

  • MEAR-171 – Full customization of FileNameMapping is needed
  • MEAR-217 – Snapshot dependencies are not deleted from skinny WARs
  • MEAR-243 – Skinny WARs – JAR not removed from WAR if scope in EAR is set to provided
  • MEAR-244 – Remove link to non-existing Codehaus wiki
  • MEAR-246 – Upgrade the EAR lifecycle to use the maven-resources-plugin 3.0.2.
  • MEAR-250 – IT skinny-wars-javaee5 fails while running with JDK 9

New Features:

  • MEAR-247 – resource-ref in generated application.xml
  • MEAR-248 – Support lookup-name in env-entry section

Improvements:

  • MEAR-198 – Add LifecycleMapping and ArtifactHandler from maven-core to target packaging plugin
  • MEAR-223 – Link to wiki on documentation page is pointing to shutdown codehaus
  • MEAR-226 – bundleFileName functionality for the acr plugin
  • MEAR-228 – Remove manifestFile parameter
  • MEAR-229 – Change default value for version parameter
  • MEAR-232 – Remove param properties that doesn’t make sense for CLI usage
  • MEAR-234 – Upgrade maven-shared-components parent to version 30
  • MEAR-241 – Change package to o.a.m.plugins
  • MEAR-242 – Update lifecycle mapping plugin version
  • MEAR-254 – Support JavaEE version 8
  • MEAR-258 – Upgrade site skin to 1.7
  • MEAR-260 – Remove finalName as a parameter
  • MEAR-261 – In cases where fileNameMapping is used fail the build
  • MEAR-262 – Missing since for outputFileNameMapping parameter
  • MEAR-263 – Wrong docs in examples/customize-file-name-mapping.html

Tasks:

  • MEAR-207 – Remove the JavaModule/Ejb3Module which are marked deprecated
  • MEAR-208 – Upgrade to Maven 3.0 compatiblity + JDK 6
  • MEAR-209 – Change and use a internal unique id instead of artifactId only
  • MEAR-259 – Fix formatting date issues in apt files

Dependency upgrades:

  • MEAR-224 – Upgrade plexus-archiver from 2.10.3 to 3.0.1
  • MEAR-233 – Upgrade plexus-archiver from 3.0.3 to 3.1.1
  • MEAR-235 – Upgrade maven-archiver to 3.1.0
  • MEAR-236 – Upgrade maven-filtering to 3.1.1
  • MEAR-237 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.3
  • MEAR-238 – Upgrade of plexus-archiver to 3.4.
  • MEAR-240 – Upgrade of maven-archiver to 3.1.1.
  • MEAR-245 – Upgrade of plexus-interpolation to 1.24.
  • MEAR-251 – Upgrade maven-archiver to 3.2.0
  • MEAR-252 – Upgrade plexus-archiver to 3.5.
  • MEAR-253 – Upgrade plexus-utils to version 3.1.0
  • MEAR-255 – Upgrade parent to 31
  • MEAR-256 – Upgrade maven-verifier component
  • MEAR-257 – Upgrade JUnit to 4.12

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team