Introduction

Normally a thick-client application would only need the stubs and utility classes of the ejb project. The ejb plugin is capable of generating an ejb jar for client use.

Generating the client

To generate the ejb-client jar, you need to set generateClient to true in the plugin's configuration:

 [...]
  <build>
    [...]
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-ejb-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
           <!-- this is false by default -->
           <generateClient>true</generateClient>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
    [...]
  </build>
  [...]

Client inclusions and exclusions

The content of the ejb-client archive can also be customized using inclusions and exclusions.

Default Exclusions:

  • **/*Bean.class
  • **/*CMP.class
  • **/*Session.class
  • **/package.html

    To customize this, use clientExcludes and clientIncludes element:

      [...]
  <build>
    [...]
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-ejb-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
           <clientIncludes>
             <!-- this will include all files and directory under com/foo/bar -->
             <clientInclude>com/foo/bar/**</clientInclude>
             <!-- this will include all files and directory under com/foo/acme -->             
             <clientInclude>com/foo/acme/**</clientInclude>
             <!-- this will include all files under com/example -->                          
             <clientInclude>com/example/*</clientInclude>             
           </clientIncludes>
           <clientExcludes>
             <!-- this will exclude all files under com/example -->                          
             <clientExclude>com/example/*</clientExclude>                                     
             <!-- this will exclude all files files and directory with sparrow under com/jack -->                          
             <clientExclude>com/jack/**/sparrow</clientExclude>                                                  
           </clientExcludes>           
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
    [...]
  </build>
  [...]

Be careful in mixing excludes and includes, excludes will have a higher priority than includes.