The Maven SAR plugin is a simple Maven 1.x plugin that can be used to generate a JBoss SAR that you can deploy.

The plugin is available here and you can install is by dropping it into your Maven installations plugins directory using $MAVEN_HOME/plugins. It is also available from Service Mix CVS under tooling/maven-sar-plugin.

Short Term Solution

Note that this plugin was knocked up to work around a missing peice of functionality in the Maven JBoss plugin see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPJBOSS-13

The plugin is purely for the packaging of the SAR, if you wish to generate your jboss-service.xml you should look at the XDoclet document. It requires a directory containing the META-INF/jboss-service.xml within your project, by default this is $basedir/src/sar, however it can be overridden with the property maven.sar.src=$basedir/src/sar.

You can also mark your dependencies so they are bundled using the sar.bundle property.

<dependency>
   <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
   <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
   <version>1.0.3</version>
   <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/</url>
   <properties>
       <sar.bundle>true</sar.bundle>
   </properties>
</dependency>

Once you have set this up, you can run the sar:install goal.

maven sar:install

If you project is usually myproject-1.0.jar you should now find a myproject-1.0.sar in your target directory which will hopefully deploy without a problem on JBoss.