<p>I am trying to setup Weblogic Server 10.3 (and Portal etc.) to use <a href="http://maven.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer">maven</a> as a build tool. I am trying to find a decent tutorial or documentation how to do this. There are some tutorials for older versions like 9.0, but there is little info for version 10.</p>

<p>I am looking a way to build weblogic's ear file with maven. Are people actually doing this? Is using maven worth the trouble? </p>

<p>I would like to use maven in order to have easier integration with continuous integration tools like <a href="http://hudson-ci.org/" rel="noreferrer">Hudson</a>.</p>

<p>edit: There seems to be a way to export maven files directly <a href="http://edocs.bea.com/wlw/docs102/guide/ideuserguide/build/conMavenScript.html" rel="noreferrer">http://edocs.bea.com/wlw/docs102/guide/ideuserguide/build/conMavenScript.html</a>. But those files are simple wrappers for ant.</p>

I am using maven to build an EAR which I deploy an WebLogic Server 10.3. The tricky parts were:
Finding all dependencies of the weblogic-maven-plugin
Putting all dependencies in the maven repo (I really recommend
Sonatype Nexus
)
Setting noExit to true (otherwise you will get problems in hudson!)
I use the following directory structure in the EAR project:
```
```
pom.xml
src/
   main/
        app/
            META-INF/
                     weblogic-application.xml
```
```
The following is taken from my pom.xml:
```
```
<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <displayName>My Project</displayName>
                <earSourceDirectory>src/main/app</earSourceDirectory>
                <modules>
                    <webModule>
                        <groupId>com.somecompany</groupId>
                        <artifactId>webapp</artifactId>
                    </webModule>
                </modules>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>weblogic-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.9.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>deploy</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>deploy</goal>
                        <goal>start</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <name>my-project</name>
                <adminServerHostName>${wls.adminServerHostName}</adminServerHostName>
                <adminServerPort>${wls.adminServerPort}</adminServerPort>
                <adminServerProtocol>t3</adminServerProtocol>
                <userId>${wls.userId}</userId>
                <password>${wls.password}</password>
                <upload>true</upload>
                <remote>true</remote>
                <verbose>false</verbose>
                <debug>false</debug>
                <targetNames>AdminServer</targetNames>
                <noExit>true</noExit>
            </configuration>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
                    <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
                    <version>1.5</version>
                    <scope>system</scope>
                    <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>weblogic</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>webservices</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.utils.full</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.i18n</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.weblogic.rmi.client</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>javax.enterprise.deploy</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>webserviceclient</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.weblogic.security.wls</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.weblogic.security.identity</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.weblogic.security</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>wlclient</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.transaction</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.utils.classloaders</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>wljmsclient</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.management.core</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>wls-api</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.descriptor</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.logging</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.weblogic.socket.api</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.weblogic.security.digest</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.weblogic.workmanager</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.weblogic.lifecycle</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.utils.wrapper</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>wlsafclient</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.management.jmx</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>weblogic</groupId>
                    <artifactId>com.bea.core.descriptor.wl</artifactId>
                    <version>${weblogic.version}</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>
```
```