I think you are looking for this: <ear ...> | <zipfileset dir="..." prefix="lib"> | <include name="activeMQ.jar" /> | </zipfileset> | </ear> Personally, I never use the "ear" task to create an ear. Instead I first copy everything that goes into the ear to a directory, then use the jar task to package up that directory. I do it this way because 90% of the time what I want to deploy is the exploded ear directory, not the ear file. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4137139#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...