maven ear deploy order

Is there any way to tell maven the deploy order of ear files?

I have the following project structure:

app
 |- pom.xml
 |
 |- commons (jar)
 |   |-pom.xml
 |
 |- integration (pom)
 |   |-pom.xm
 |   |
 |  ...
 |   |
 |   |-elasticsearch-search-service (pom)
 |      |-pom.xml
 |      |
 |      |-elasticsearch-search-service-bean (jar)
 |      |  |-pom.xml
 |      |
 |      |-elasticsearch-search-service-ear (ear)
 |         |-pom.xml
 |
 |- services (pom)
     |-pom.xml
     |
     |-search-service (jar)
     |   |-pom.xml
     |
    ...
     |
     |-restapi-web (war)
     |   |-pom.xml
     |
     |-services-ear(ear)
         |-pom.xml

The commons.jar is packaged under the lib folder in each ears. The services.ear calls ejb services from the elasticsearch-search-service-bean.jar so elasticsearch-search-service-ear must be deployed before services-ear.

When I run maven then it tries to deploy services-ear at first and of course it fails with No bean named elasticsearch-search-service-bean/SearchServiceBean is defined: not found in JNDI environment.

Everything is working fine when I deploy ears manually in a proper order.

I added a dependency into the service-ear project like this, but it does not work and the ear is not deployed before the others:

<dependency>
    <groupId>...</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticsearch-search-service-bean</artifactId>
    <version>...</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

If I try to add elasticsearch-search-service-ear dependency into the service-ear project than the deploy order is fine but I get this exception:

Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.DependencyResolutionException: Could not resolve dependencies for project ...:services-ear:ear:1.0: Failure to find ...:elasticsearch-search-service-ear:jar:1.0 in http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced

How I can tell to maven that start deploying the elasticsearch-search-service-ear before the other ears?

Solution

Finally I have found the solution.

The only one way to tell to maven the deploy order is to define dependencies between poms.

So if I want to deploy elasticsearch-search-service-ear before services-ear than I need to add a new dependency into services-ear.

<!-- elasticsearch-search-service.ear needs to be deployed before services.ear -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>...</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticsearch-search-service-ear</artifactId>
    <version>...</version>
    <type>pom</type>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

The two important settings here are:

scope needs to be "provided", it prevents elasticsearch-search-service-ear libraries to be added into the services-ear.
type needs to be "pom", to avoid Failure to find ...:elasticsearch-search-service-ear:jar

I hope it helps to anyone who is in the same situation.