The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven ACR Plugin, version 1.0
The Maven ACR (Application Client aRchive) is a new plugin in the JavaEE spectrum meant to deal with the JavaEE "application client" packaging type. A new "app-client" packaging type is provided with this plugin and an integration with the EAR plugin is foreseen[1] short term http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-acr-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration and enable the plugin's extensions as the new "app-client" packaging type is not yet detected by Maven automatically: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-acr-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> <extensions>true</extensions> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven ACR Plugin - Version 1.0 ** Improvement * [MACR-2] - Initial documentation ** New Feature * [MACR-1] - Initial version of the plugin Enjoy, -The Maven team [1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEAR-137