The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Rar Plugin, version 2.3
A resource adapter is a system-level software driver that a Java application uses to connect to an enterprise information system (EIS). The RAR plugin has the capability to store these resource adapters to an archive (Resource Adapter Archive or RAR) which can be deployed to a J2EE server. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-rar-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-rar-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven 2.x Rar Plugin - Version 2.3 ** Bug * [MRAR-21] - Non Java dependencies shouldn't be included in the RAR ** Improvement * [MRAR-15] - Allow more customizations of resources to be included * [MRAR-22] - Allow filtering of source resources * [MRAR-27] - Add @threadSafe support for maven3 * [MRAR-32] - Pass MavenSession to createArchive ** New Feature * [MRAR-29] - Make ra.xml optional - 1.6 spec ** Task * [MRAR-31] - use maven-plugin-tools' java 5 annotations Have Fun, -- The Apache Maven team
