Maven EAR Plugin 2.3.2 Released

[snicoll-3]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven EAR
Plugin, version 2.3.2

This version supports JBoss5 and filtering of the ear resources
directory, namely.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ear-plugin/

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

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.3.2</version>
</plugin>


Release Notes - Maven 2.x Ear Plugin - Version 2.3.2

** Bug
    * [MEAR-70] - loader-repository node for jboss configuration
    * [MEAR-79] - generated application.xml is empty (0 bytes) if
<generatedDescriptorLocation> is redefined
    * [MEAR-82] - From version 2.3 on, resources are not always copied
to the EAR structure
    * [MEAR-94] - Synchronize module releases and documentation releases
    * [MEAR-96] - earSourceExcludes does not work for jar dependency
filtering like warSourceExcludes / packagingExcludes for the
maven-war-plugin
    * [MEAR-99] - Corrupted deployment descriptor if configured
encoding does not match platform encoding
    * [MEAR-100] - Support altDeploymentDescriptor for J2EE 1.4
    * [MEAR-101] - workDirectory contents added to target/ear file.

** Improvement
    * [MEAR-78] - Library directory configuration
    * [MEAR-81] - Suppressing application.xml creation (and inclusion)
completely
    * [MEAR-86] - Add a property to automatically add jars
dependencies into application.xml (TEST AND PATCH ATTACHED).
    * [MEAR-102] - Support for JBoss 5 as well as some missing elements

** New Feature
    * [MEAR-43] - add ability to do filtering (i.e. template var
replacement) for files in src/main/application/
    * [MEAR-97] - Add ability to generate jboss-app.xml for JBoss 5

** Wish
    * [MEAR-52] - Ability to add jboss dataosources (*ds.xml) files as
a jarModule

Enjoy,

-The Maven team