The Maven SAR plugin is a simple Maven 1.x plugin that can be used to generate a JBoss SAR that you can deploy.
"Short term solution"
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
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 _$
/src/sar_, however it can be overridden with the property *maven.sar.src=$
/src/sar*.
You can also mark your dependencies so they are bundled using the sar.bundle property.
<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>
Once you have set this up, you can run the sar:install goal.
maven sar:install
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.