Explode an EAR file

Question

My JSF Project is deployed as an EAR file. It includes some war files also. I need an exploded version of the EAR (including exploded inner WARs).

Is there any tool to do it?

Answer 1

Programmatically, or manually? EAR and WAR files, like JAR files, are really just ZIP files with a known internal file/folder structure. That means you can extract EARs and WARs like any other ZIP file, with code or with a desktop application.

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Command line tool for windows would be great.

• A Java implementation that you could drop into an executable JAR very easily: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7108813/139010
• A bash script: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/4372/4515
• And finally, if you don't mind using 7zip, a Windows-compatible script: https://superuser.com/a/248349/9232