<ear>
Essentially a shortcut to a more complex <jar> task, the <ear> task enables you to create Enterprise Application archives (or EAR files). Thus giving you the ability to prepare a distribution for deployment using Ant.
Table 4.30 lists the attributes associated with the <ear> task.
| Attributes | Description |
|---|---|
| Required | |
| appxml | The deployment descriptor (application.xml) to use. |
| destfile | The name of the EAR file to create. |
| Optional | |
| basedir | The base directory the task will work from. |
| compress | If true, the data will also be compressed. Defaults to true. |
| defaultexcludes | If false, default excludes will not be used. Defaults to true. |
| encoding | The character encoding to use for filenames inside the archive. Defaults ... |
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