We are pleased to announce the Maven EJB Plugin 1.7-SNAPSHOT release! 

http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/ejb/

EJB Plugin for Maven 

Changes in this version include:

  Fixed bugs:

o Make the ejb creation work even if there are not sources. 
o Fixed default property values in the web site documentation. Issue: 
  MPEJB-12. 
o EJB client jar can now be generated and deployed/installed automatically by 
  the standard goals (ejb, ejb:ejb, ejb:install and ejb:deploy). Previous 
  goals dedicated to ejb client have been deprecated. There is a new property 
  maven.ejb.client.generate which decides whether or not to generate the ejb 
  client jar. It defaults to true. Issue: MPEJB-2. 
o Added new EJB type handler that supports ejb and ejb-client types. This 
  fixes the bug with ejb:install/deploy-client not uploading the client jar. 
  Issue: MPEJB-16. Thanks to H�vard Bj�stad. 

  Changes:

o By default do not generate client EJB. I believe this is a more common 
  default that generating as generation of client EJBs is only required for 
  distributed apps which are not so common.  

To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven, http://cvs.apache.org/repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-ejb-plugin
  -Dversion=1.7-SNAPSHOT

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-ejb-plugin-1.7-SNAPSHOT.jar
         

Have fun!
-The Maven EJB Plugin development team