3.7. Deploying the application as an EAR

Several changes are required before we can deploy the application with standard Java EE 5 packaging. First, remove the exploded directory by running seam unexplode. To deploy the EAR, either type seam deploy at the command prompt, or run the deploy target of the generated project build script. To undeploy, use seam undeploy or the undeploy target.

By default, the application deploys with the dev profile. The EAR includes the persistence-dev.xml and import-dev.sql files, and deploys myproject-dev-ds.xml. You can change the profile to prod profile by typing: seam -Dprofile=prod deploy

You can also define new deployment profiles for your application. Just add appropriately named files to your project — for example, persistence-staging.xml, import-staging.sql and myproject-staging-ds.xml — and select the name of the profile with -Dprofile=staging.