Chapter 27. The Ear Plugin

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'ear'

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'ear'
apply plugin: 'java'

repositories { mavenCentral() }

dependencies {
    //following dependencies will become the ear modules and placed in the ear root
    deploy project(':war')

    //following dependencies will become ear libs and placed in a dir configured via libDirName property
    earlib group: 'log4j', name: 'log4j', version: '1.2.15', ext: 'jar'
}

ear {
    appDirName 'src/main/app'  // use application metadata found in this folder
    libDirName 'APP-INF/lib'  // put dependency libraries into APP-INF/lib inside the generated EAR;
                                // also modify the generated deployment descriptor accordingly
    deploymentDescriptor {  // custom entries for application.xml:
//      fileName = "application.xml"  // same as the default value
//      version = "6"  // same as the default value
        applicationName = "customear"
        initializeInOrder = true
        displayName = "Custom Ear"  // defaults to project.name
        description = "My customized EAR for the Gradle documentation"  // defaults to project.description
//      libraryDirectory = "APP-INF/lib"  // not needed, because setting libDirName above did this for us
//      module("my.jar", "java")  // wouldn't deploy since my.jar isn't a deploy dependency
//      webModule("my.war", "/")  // wouldn't deploy since my.war isn't a deploy dependency
        securityRole "admin"
        securityRole "superadmin"
        withXml { provider -> // add a custom node to the XML
            provider.asNode().appendNode("data-source", "my/data/source")
        }
    }
}