Other Commands

There are a number of other commands that aren't specifically administration commands, but are still useful to understand. Because these are not administrative commands, they do not conform to the general command syntax described at the beginning of this chapter.

EAR Expander

EARExpander is a bit of a misnomer; it can be used to expand EAR files to a directory structure, but it can also be used to collapse an already-expanded EAR directory structure into an EAR file. With it you can make simple changes to an EAR file by expanding it, making some changes, and then collapsing it into an EAR file again.

The EARExpander command requires the name of an EAR file (the source for expand or destination for collapse), a directory (the source ...

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