generate application.xml for J2EE 1.4 in plugin.jeyy extend <j:switch on="${maven.ear.appxml.version}"> <j:case value="1.3"> <x:doctype name="application" publicId="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.3//EN" systemId="http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd"/> </j:case> <j:default> <x:doctype name="application" publicId="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.2//EN" systemId="http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/application_1_2.dtd"/> </j:default> </j:switch> to cater for <j:case value="1.4> and generate the following header (however that is done in xdoc) <application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/application_1_4.xsd" version="1.4">