Maven 3.0 Packaging Includes Execution Order

For all of you Mausers, I thought I would go through an important note about a packaging order. Includes in maven 3 to pack .ear files. In your pom.xml, to compile the .ear file, you will have something similar to:

<build>
       <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.8</version>
         <configuration>
          <packagingExcludes>
           db2jcc**.jar,
           db2jcc_license_cu**,
           osgi-3.6.1.jar,
...
</build>

It is important that the tag <packagingExcludes>be the first element after the tag <configuration>. Otherwise, maven silently ignores it. This is for all of you who wondered why servlet-3.0 is still displayed in your .ear file.