The maven-archetype-plugin along with our maven-archetype-sar package provides an easy way to seed your new sar project. Use the command below, filling in your group and artifact id, to generate a proper pom.xml and file layout for the maven-sar-plugin.
mvn archetype:create \ -DarchetypeGroupId=net.sf.maven-sar \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-sar \ -DarchetypeVersion=0.9 \ -DgroupId=[your project's group id] \ -DartifactId=[your project's artifact id]