Using a HAR File Inside an EAR File

A Hibernate archive can be deployed as a top-level package, or it can be deployed as a component of an EAR file. Because Hibernate archives are not a standard J2EE deployment type, you need to declare them in the jboss-app.xml file of an EAR file in order to use them in that context. You do this by using a module/har element, as shown in the following example:

 <!DOCTYPE jboss-app PUBLIC           "-//JBoss//DTD J2EE Application 1.4//EN"           "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-app_4_0.dtd"> <jboss-app>     <module>         <har>caveatemptor.har</har>     </module> </jboss-app> 

With this, a Hibernate archive can be deployed alongside a WAR or EJB JAR file in any EAR file.