The enterprise archive (EAR) files contain all of the fields that are required to run an application. The build process creates the two EAR files that are used to deploy the Maximo® applications to the application server.
The two EAR files, maximo.ear and maximoiehs.ear, must be built before they are deployed.
If you deferred application redeployment when you ran the installation program, you must build and deploy the EAR files. You must also build the EAR files when a database connection parameter in the maximo.properties file is modified.
When you build the EAR files, they are saved in the following directory: install_dir\maximo\deployment\default.