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<h2><a name="ear">Ear</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>An extension of the <a href="jar.html">Jar</a> task with special
treatment for files that should end up in an Enterprise Application archive.</p>
<p>(The Ear task is a shortcut for specifying the particular layout of a EAR file. 
The same thing can be accomplished by using the <i>prefix</i> and <i>fullpath</i>
attributes of zipfilesets in a Zip or Jar task.)</p>
<p>The extended zipfileset element from the zip task (with attributes <i>prefix</i>, <i>fullpath</i>, and <i>src</i>) is available in the Ear task.</p>

<p><b>Please note that the zip format allows multiple files of the same
fully-qualified name to exist within a single archive.  This has been
documented as causing various problems for unsuspecting users.  If you wish
to avoid this behavior you must set the <code>duplicate</code> attribute
to a value other than its default, <code>&quot;add&quot;</code>.</b></p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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    <td valign="top">destfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the EAR file to create.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
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    <td valign="top">appxml</td>
    <td valign="top">The deployment descriptor to use (META-INF/application.xml).</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes, unless update is set to true</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">basedir</td>
    <td valign="top">the directory from which to jar the files.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">compress</td>
    <td valign="top">Not only store data but also compress them,
    defaults to true.  Unless you set the <em>keepcompression</em>
    attribute to false, this will apply to the entire archive, not
    only the files you've added while updating.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">keepcompression</td>
    <td valign="top">For entries coming from existing archives (like
    nested <em>zipfileset</em>s or while updating the archive), keep
    the compression as it has been originally instead of using the
    <em>compress</em> attribute.  Defaults false.  <em>Since Ant
    1.6</em></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">encoding</td>
    <td valign="top">The character encoding to use for filenames
      inside the archive.  Defaults to UTF8. <strong>It is not
      recommended to change this value as the created archive will most
      likely be unreadable for Java otherwise.</strong></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">filesonly</td>
    <td valign="top">Store only file entries, defaults to false</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">includes</td>
    <td valign="top">comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be
      included. All files are included when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">includesfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
      taken to be an include pattern</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">excludes</td>
    <td valign="top">comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be
      excluded. No files (except default excludes) are excluded when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">excludesfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
      taken to be an exclude pattern</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">defaultexcludes</td>
    <td valign="top">indicates whether default excludes should be used or not
      (&quot;yes&quot;/&quot;no&quot;). Default excludes are used when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">manifest</td>
    <td valign="top">the manifest file to use.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">update</td>
    <td valign="top">indicates whether to update or overwrite
      the destination file if it already exists.  Default is &quot;false&quot;.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">duplicate</td>
    <td valign="top">behavior when a duplicate file is found.  Valid values are &quot;add&quot;, &quot;preserve&quot;, and &quot;fail&quot;.  The default value is &quot;add&quot;.  </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">roundup</td>
    <td valign="top">Whether the file modification times will be
    rounded up to the next even number of seconds.<br>
    Zip archives store file modification times with a granularity of
    two seconds, so the times will either be rounded up or down.  If
    you round down, the archive will always seem out-of-date when you
    rerun the task, so the default is to round up.  Rounding up may
    lead to a different type of problems like JSPs inside a web
    archive that seem to be slightly more recent than precompiled
    pages, rendering precompilation useless.<br>
    Defaults to true.  <em>Since Ant 1.6.2</em></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<h3>Nested elements</h3>
<h4>metainf</h4>
<p>The nested <code>metainf</code> element specifies a <a
href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>. All files included in this fileset will
end up in the <code>META-INF</code> directory of the ear file. If this
fileset includes a file named <code>MANIFEST.MF</code>, the file is
ignored and you will get a warning.</p>
<h2>Example</h2>
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    &lt;ear destfile=&quot;${build.dir}/myapp.ear&quot; appxml=&quot;${src.dir}/metadata/application.xml&quot;&gt;
      &lt;fileset dir=&quot;${build.dir}&quot; includes=&quot;*.jar,*.war&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/ear&gt;
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