[news.eclipse.technology.iam] Preliminary EAR support

[Carlos Sanchez <csanchez@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have added some preliminary EAR support that will allow you to run EAR 
and WAR projects in the appserver from Eclipse, by right clicking on the 
projects and select run on server.

The wars will be deployed in the path specified in the application.xml 
file in the EAR project.

The support is included in the latest build in the development update 
site at http://q4e.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/updatesite-dev


Caveats:

- to have Eclipse recognize the application.xml file it needs to be in 
/META-INF/application.xml, so you'd need to add to the pom' EAR plugin 
configuration so Maven generates the application.xml in the right place

<configuration>

<generatedDescriptorLocation>${basedir}/META-INF</generatedDescriptorLocation>
...

- WAR projects need to be open in the workspace to be deployed. If the 
EAR depends on WARs in the repository they are not available for deployment.


Hope you find it useful!