Maven ear problem - maven

Question

I'm finishing my project build (with maven), and it's working great. Now I just have to "pack it", as an ear.
All I need to do is pack 3 dependencies, one .jar and 2 .war. Don't ask me how, that was the way it was done before (with ant), and I'm translating it to maven - next I'll organize the packages, so we can be more productive.
However, I'm having a few problems. First, the package is named null-${version}.ear. It copies itself right to the repository, but in the target folder is wrongly named. And second, it's copying all the other packages dependencies. I want to know what can I do about the null name, and the copying of the packages.
Here is my pom:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>owner</groupId>
<artifactId>coreisp</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</parent>
<groupId>owner</groupId>
<artifactId>coreisp-app</artifactId>
<packaging>ear</packaging>
<version>2.0</version>
<name>Projeto CoreISP</name>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>${pom.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>coreisp-core</artifactId>
<version>${pom.version}</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>${pom.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>coreisp-initializer</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<version>${pom.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>${pom.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>coreisp-site</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<version>${pom.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>${application.id}-${pom.version}</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<modules>
<jarModule>
<groupId>owner</groupId>
<artifactId>coreisp-core</artifactId>
<includeInApplicationXml>
true
</includeInApplicationXml>
<bundleDir>/</bundleDir>
</jarModule>
<webModule>
<groupId>owner</groupId>
<artifactId>
coreisp-initializer
</artifactId>
<bundleDir>/</bundleDir>
</webModule>
<webModule>
<groupId>owner</groupId>
<artifactId>
coreisp-site
</artifactId>
<bundleDir>/</bundleDir>
</webModule>
</modules>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

First of all remove the element from your POM, the application.id property is what gives you the "null" name.
As to ensure that transitive dependencies do not end up in your EAR I suggest you specify explicitly in your POM what you do want and what you do not want. In order to keep a dependency out all you need to do is define it in your POM with a scope of provided. I know it's a painful job, but in my opinion it's worth it, to ensure that you get exactly what you want.