Spring Loading EAR Packaging

Similar to this SO I am trying to package multiple modules WAR

into one ear

. I was able to get each one individually as WARs

well as packaged as an EAR. My current problem is with a general one context

. Essentially trying to decouple the API RESTful

from the WS, but share the underlying service context

.

So far, the closest thing I can find close is Spring IO Blog ; I hope someone can point me in the direction of something more modern as I was out of luck.

There seems to be a number of ways to do this with XML

, but don't do anything common xml context anymore