Create EAR Project With SpringBoot module - spring-boot

Question

I need to create an EAR file to be deployed on JBoss EAP 7. I considered to build a project structure like the following:
- rootproject
-- ear (ear)
-- web (war)
Therefore for the rootproject I have created a new Simple Maven project (using Eclipse 06/2020), with the following .pom.xml:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>jboss_test</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss_test</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>jboss_ear_test</name>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.2.11.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>default</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<modules>
<module>ear</module>
<module>web</module>
</modules>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>
Therefore, inside it, I have created a SpringBoot 2.2.11 project (WEB) with the following .pom.xml:
....
....
<parent>
<artifactId>jboss_test</artifactId>
<groupId>jboss_test</groupId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>web</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>web-test</name>
<description>Spring Boot JBOSS</description>
.... // some dependencies
And a Maven module used the ear with the following .pom.xml:
....
....
<parent>
<artifactId>jboss_test</artifactId>
<groupId>jboss_test</groupId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>ear</artifactId>
<packaging>ear</packaging>
<name>ear-test</name>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<finalName>JBOSS-TEST_EAR</finalName>
<version>6</version>
<defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
<modules>
<webModule>
<groupId>jboss_test</groupId>
<artifactId>web</artifactId>
<bundleFileName>JBOSS-TEST.war</bundleFileName>
<contextRoot>/TEST</contextRoot>
</webModule>
</modules>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
When I try to build the project from its root I obtain the following error:
Artifact[war:jboss_test:web] is not a dependency of the project
Can you help me to find out whats wrong??
Thank you

Answer 1

Thanks a lot to #khmarbaise for his response, I solved as follows:
Creating rootproject as Simple Maven project, .pom.xml:
<groupId>it.coding.jboss.deployment</groupId>
<artifactId>jbdeployment</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.2.11.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<modules>
<module>ear-test</module>
<module>web-test</module>
</modules>
Creating ear-test as Maven module, .pom.xml:
<parent>
<groupId>it.coding.jboss.deployment</groupId>
<artifactId>jbdeployment</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>ear-test</artifactId>
<packaging>ear</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<finalName>TEST-EAR</finalName>
<version>6</version>
<defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
<modules>
<webModule>
<groupId>it.coding.jboss.deployment</groupId>
<artifactId>web-test</artifactId>
<bundleFileName>WEB-TEST.war</bundleFileName>
<contextRoot>/WEB-TEST</contextRoot>
</webModule>
</modules>
<archive>
<addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
<manifestEntries>
<Implementation-Title>JBOSS-TEST</Implementation-Title>
<Implementation-Version>1.0</Implementation-Version>
<Implementation-Vendor>CODING</Implementation-Vendor>
<Built-By></Built-By>
</manifestEntries>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>it.coding.jboss.deployment</groupId>
<artifactId>web-test</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Creating web-test as SpringBoot 2.2.11 project, .pom.xml:
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>it.coding.jboss.deployment</groupId>
<artifactId>jbdeployment</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>web-test</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>web-test</name>
<description>Spring Boot JBOSS</description>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
// dependencies
</dependencies>
...
...
</project>
Maven build goes fine and EAR is created.. Than I would like to ask one more thing: do you think I have to define all the dependecies inside my ear-test pom?? Also those of the web-test project related to Spring, Hibernate etc.. ?
Thanks a lot