In the maven-ear-plugin-1.2 there is a search for dependencies to put in the application.xml I notice 'ejb', 'jar', 'war', even 'rar'. I added a section to look for 'sar', and this seems to have worked. Here's a copy-paste from that section including the section that looks for 'rar' <j:when test="${dep.type=='rar'}"> <x:element name="module"> <x:element name="connector">${dep.getArtifact()}</x:element> </x:element> </j:when> <j:when test="${dep.type=='sar'}"> <x:element name="module"> <x:element name="connector">${dep.getArtifact()}</x:element> </x:element> </j:when> This seems to work just fine. I look in the JBoss logs and it does in fact deploy as I want it to.