Including A Third Party Library In application.xml

If third party libraries need to be included in the generated application.xml, the 'includeInApplicationXml' flag could be used. This flag works only for jar modules since they define third party libraries packaged within the EAR.

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
           [...]
           <modules>
             <jarModule>
               <groupId>artifactGroupId</groupId>
               <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
               <includeInApplicationXml>true</includeInApplicationXml>
             </jarModule>
          </modules>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>