Ear project dynamic webapplication and maven

I have to create a dynamic webapplication. And I have to create an ear-file from it. I also want to use maven. What is the best way to do this in eclipse?

I found the "maven-archetype-j2ee-simple" archetype (Create complete EAR Project with Maven and Eclipse Helios). Can someone tell me what I have to put in which folder(controllers,test,jsp-sites,java classes) and how I create an ear-file.

If I run maven I get errors

 Child module */site of */pom.xml does not exist

I just need to delete <module>site</module> in the root pom.xml to get rid of this error but I dont even know what this one is doing. And why this archetyp got errors?

Kindly Regards!

Solution

There appears to be a bug in this archetype (it's quite old by the looks of the ejb module), you can delete the site module from the parent pom, I assume it was supposed to be a maven site.

I would however suggest that you do not use this archetype.

Create a war project from the maven-archetype-webapp, then create your own parent and your own ear project to package the war.

The parent would look like this:

<modules>
        <module>poc-war</module>
        <module>poc-ear</module>
</modules>

The ear pom would have a dependency on the war project and use the maven ear plugin to generate an ear:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
        <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

        <parent>
                <groupId>net.isban</groupId>
                <artifactId>poc</artifactId>
                <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </parent>

        <artifactId>poc-ear</artifactId>
        <packaging>ear</packaging>

        <description>EAR deployment </description>
        <name>FMIS EAR</name>

        <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                        <groupId>net.isban</groupId>
                        <artifactId>poc-war</artifactId>
                        <version>${project.version}</version>
                        <type>war</type>
                </dependency>
        </dependencies>

        <build>
                <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</finalName>
                <plugins>
                        <plugin>
                                <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
                                <version>2.10.1</version>
                                <configuration>
                                        <skinnyWars>false</skinnyWars>
                                        <filtering>true</filtering>
                                        <modules>
                                                <webModule>
                                                        <groupId>net.isban</groupId>
                                                        <artifactId>poc-war</artifactId>
                                                        <contextRoot>/poc</contextRoot>
                                                </webModule>
                                        </modules>
                                </configuration>
                        </plugin>
                </plugins>
        </build>

</project>