title: EAR package structure
body: <p>I am creating an EAR with 1 war file (appWeb.war is my web module) and several jar files.
  These jar files are NOT EJBs. We have choosen to create different jar files based on logical separation of application like the model.jar (containing all model classes, DAO, DTO and hibernate files), BO.jar (containing business logic)etc...</p>
  
  <p>I wanted to know the correct packaging structure for my EAR</p>
  
  <pre><code>application.ear
  .
  .
  ....lib (folder created by us)
      .
      .
      ...strus.jar
      ...spring3.jar (all the spring library files)
      ...BO.jar
      ...model.jar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am adding appWeb.war as the web module to my EAR in the IDE (RAD 7.5)
  Which creates the entry in application.ear/META-INF/application.xml</p>
  
  <p>Environment details:
  App server: Websphere app server 7.0
  IDE: RAD 7.5
   It's a Struts 2, Spring 3 and Hibernate 3.6 application</p>
  
  <p>Questions:
  1. Is this approach correct? Where does the application specific jar files kept in an EAR?
  2. We want to move the library files to application.ear/lib folder.</p>
  
  <p>Any dierctions/help/best practices on this will be appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>thanks</p>