Create EAR in JDeveloper to deploy on Oracle AS 10g

Question

I have a J2EE project with EJBs and JSPs. I am using JDEVELOPER as my IDE. I need to deploy my application on ORACLE 10G APP SERVER.
I need to create an EAR file consisting of my EJBs and JSPs to deploy the appln.
When i go into Deployment Profiles in JDeveloper and try to create an EAR file, it does create the EAR file but the contents of the file are only 2-3 xml files, there is nothing else in it.
I am wondering how on earth do i need to create my EAR package so that i can deploy on Oracle APP Server.
This is actually very urgent... so i would really really appreciate and thank you if someone could help me out....
Thank you very much in advance

Answer 1

OK. Here is how I do that:
Say I have two projects named "web" and "model":
- Create a WAR deployment profile in the "web" project called web.deploy
- Create a EJB JAR deployment profile in the "model" project called model.deploy
- Create a new project called packing
- Open the project properties
- Select the "Dependencies" and select the projects "web" and "model"
- Create an EAR profile called app.deploy
- Right click on the app.deploy and select the "Properties..." entry from the context menu to open the "EAR Deployment Properties Dialog"
- Select the "Application Assembly"
- Tick the check boxes for "web.deploy" and "model.deploy"
- Now test the creation of the EAR by selecting "Deploy to EAR file" from the context menu.
- You can check the contents by using: jar tvf app.ear
- This will give you an output like this:
META-INF/application.xml
web.war
model.jar
To modify the application.xml and even include orion-application.xml, you can create them with the Deployment Descriptor wizards.
HTH,
--olaf