EAR (file format)

Enterprise Archive
Filename extension	.ear
Internet media type	application/java-archive
Developed by	Sun Microsystems
Type of format	file archive, data compression
Extended from	JAR

EAR (Enterprise Application aRchive) is a file format used by Jakarta EE for packaging one or more modules into a single archive so that the deployment of the various modules onto an application server happens simultaneously and coherently. It also contains XML files called deployment descriptors which describe how to deploy the modules.

Ant, Maven, or Gradle can be used to build EAR files.

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