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| <title>Exporting an enterprise application into an EAR file</title> |
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| <h1 class="topictitle1">Exporting an enterprise application into an EAR file</h1> |
| <div><p>Enterprise applications are deployed in the form of an EAR file. |
| Use the Export wizard to export an enterprise application project into an |
| EAR file for deployment.</p> |
| <div class="section"> <p>To export an enterprise application project into an EAR file:</p> |
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| <ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Project Explorer view of the J2EE perspective, right-click |
| the project that you want to export.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Export</span> from the pop-up menu. The Export |
| wizard opens.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Under <span class="uicontrol">Select an export destination</span>, click <span class="uicontrol">EAR |
| file</span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Next</span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>In the <span class="uicontrol">EAR Application</span> list, select the |
| project to export.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>In the <span class="uicontrol">Destination</span> field, enter the full |
| path and EAR file name where you want to export the enterprise application |
| project that is selected in the <span class="uicontrol">EAR application</span> field.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><strong>Optional: </strong><span>To export source files, select the <span class="uicontrol">Export |
| source files</span> check box.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><strong>Optional: </strong><span>If you are exporting to an existing EAR file |
| and you do not want to be warned about overwriting it, select <span class="uicontrol">Overwrite |
| existing files without warning</span></span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><strong>Optional: </strong><span>Select <span class="uicontrol">Include project build paths |
| and meta-data files</span>.</span> This allows you to preserve the |
| original names of projects included in or referenced by the application project, |
| for re-importing the EAR in another workspace. </li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Finish</span>.</span></li> |
| </ol> |
| <div class="section">The wizard exports the contents of the EAR project to the specified |
| EAR file. Additionally, for each project that corresponds to a module or utility |
| JAR in the application, the project contents are exported into a nested module |
| or JAR file in the EAR file. If any unsaved changes exist on any of the files |
| in any of the referenced projects, you are prompted to save these files prior |
| to export.</div> |
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| <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="../topics/ph-importexport.html" title="These topics cover how to import files and projects into the workbench and export files and projects to disk.">Importing and exporting projects and files</a></div> |
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| <div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br /> |
| <div><a href="../topics/cjarch.html" title="The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) provides a standard for developing multitier, enterprise services.">J2EE architecture</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../topics/cjearproj.html" title="An enterprise application project contains the hierarchy of resources that are required to deploy a J2EE enterprise application, often referred to as an EAR file.">Enterprise application projects</a></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br /> |
| <div><a href="../topics/tjimpear.html" title="Enterprise application projects are deployed into EAR files. You can import an enterprise application project by importing it from a deployed EAR file.">Importing an enterprise application EAR file</a></div> |
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