Generates a J2EE Enterprise Archive (EAR) file.

Plugin coordinates:

• Group Id: org.apache.maven.plugins
  
• Artifact Id: maven-ear-plugin
  

Plugin Prefix: ear

The ear plugin has the following goals:

• help: Displays help information on maven-ear-plugin.
  
  
• ear: Builds J2EE Enterprise Archive (EAR) files.
  
  
• generate-application-xml: Generates the EAR deployment descriptor file(s).
  

The goal help gives general information about the ear plugin and lists its goals.
The parameter detail gives detailed information about the parameters of the goals of the ear plugin.
$ mvn ear:help $ mvn ear:help -Ddetail=true
If you need to use the plugin's coordinates instead of its prefix, you can do that as following:
$ mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-ear-plugin:3.3.0:help $ mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-ear-plugin:3.3.0:help -Ddetail=true
You can also use the goal describe of the help plugin to get information about the ear plugin and lists its goals:
$ mvn help:describe -Dplugin=ear $ mvn help:describe -Dplugin="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-ear-plugin:3.3.0" $ mvn help:describe -Dplugin="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-ear-plugin:3.3.0" -Ddetail=true
The parameter goal gives information about a goal of the ear plugin:
$ mvn ear:help -Dgoal=ear -Ddetail=true $ mvn help:describe -Dplugin=ear -Dgoal=ear -Ddetail=true