creating war file using maven-ear-plugin and defining it in one pom.xml - maven

Question

I am at the starter level of the maven usage. I hope I can explain my problem clearly, I want to create an ear file which contains war file inside it. And I planned to use to create a war file from the start. Also I want to do it in my pom.xml at my project and there is only one pom.xml, here is the problem;
Can I create ear file and which contains this war that I created at the same time in one pom.xml file?
when I try to create war file in webmodule tag, here is the problem that I encounter " Artifact[war:denem.denem:denem] is not a dependency of the project." I understood so that's why I added dependency for this file in the same pom.xml but this time I encountered that problem
(By the way my command to build this pom is "mvn clean package" )
"1 required artifact is missing.
for artifact:
com.denem.denem:com.denem.de2:ear:v0.1"
It tries to find this war file but I want to create it not to find it. Here the code in my pom.xml file;
<parent>
<groupId>denem.denem</groupId>
<artifactId>com.denem.denem</artifactId>
<version>v0.1</version>
</parent>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>denem.denem</groupId>
<artifactId>com.denem.de2</artifactId>
<version>v0.1</version>
<packaging>ear</packaging>
<properties>
<cxf.version>2.2.5</cxf.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>denem.denem</groupId>
<artifactId>denem</artifactId>
<version>v0.1</version>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<configuration>
<finalName>edu</finalName>
<defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
<modules>
<webModule>
<groupId>denem.denem</groupId>
<artifactId>denem</artifactId>
<contextRoot>/WebContent</contextRoot>
</webModule>
</modules>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
I guess I am doing lots of things wrong. But If you can help me I will be glad. Thank you anyway.

Answer 1

You need to create a modular project.
Create:
a parent project of type "pom";
a child project of type "war";
if needed, child projects of type "ejb";
if needed, child projects of type "jar" (common libraries);
one project of type "ear", that has all of the above as dependencies.
In the latter you need to configure the ear plugin putting all the modules that you need.