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Apache Ant EAR Task

Ant EAR is an extension of the JAR task and have different treatment for the files. EAR is refer to Enterprise Application Archive and used to archive enterprise applications. The attributes of this task are given below.

Apache Ant EAR Task Attributes

Attribute	Description	Required
destfile	The EAR file to create.	Yes
appxml	The deployment descriptor file.	Yes
basedir	The directory from which to jar the files.	No
compress	Compress and store data.	No
keepcompression	Keep the compression as it has been originally compressed.	No
encoding	The encoding to use for filename inside the archive file.	No
filesonly	Store only file entries.	No
includes	List of files which need to be included.	No
includesfile	Each line of this file is taken to be an include pattern.	No
excludes	List of files which need to be excluded.	No
excludesfile	Each line of this file is taken to be an exclude pattern.	No
defaultexcludes	Default excludes should be used or not.	No
manifest	The manifest file to use.	No
whenmanifestonly	behavior when no files match. Valid values are fail, skip, and create.	No
manifestencoding	The encoding used to read the JAR manifest, when a manifest file is specified.	No
index	whether to create an index list to speed up classloading or not.	No
update	It indicates whether to update the destination file or not.	No
duplicate	Acts when a duplicate file is found. Valid values are add, preserve, and fail.	No

Apache Ant EAR Example