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The Maven SAR plugin is a simple Maven 1.x plugin that can be used to generate a [JBoss|http://www.jboss.com] SAR that you can deploy.

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Note that this plugin was knocked up to work around a missing peice of functionality in the Maven JBoss plugin see [http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPJBOSS-13]
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The plugin is purely for the packaging of the SAR,  if you wish to generate your jboss-service.xml you should look at the XDoclet document.  It requires a directory containing the META-INF/jboss-service.xml within your project,  by default this is _${basedir}$basedir/src/sar_, however it can be overridden with the property *maven.sar.src=${basedir}/src/sar*.

You can also mark your dependencies so they are bundled using the _sar.bundle_ property.

{code:xml}
<dependency>
   <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
   <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
   <version>1.0.3</version>
   <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/</url>
   <properties>
       <sar.bundle>true</sar.bundle>
   </properties>
</dependency>
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Once you have set this up, you can run the _sar:install_ goal.

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maven sar:install
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If you project is usually *myproject-1.0.jar* you should now find a *myproject-1.0.sar* in your target directory which will _hopefully_ deploy without a problem on JBoss.