Putting web service in an ear file

Question

I am using the jwsc ANT to to create a web service. The docs say by default it creates an exploded directory. I don't want an exploded directory, I would rather have an ear file. I see that the jwsc task has an explode attribute, but setting that to false has no affect (actually I see no difference in behavior whether I set that to true or false).
So how can I get it into an ear file?
I would rather have the ear file because I am having no luck deploying an exploded directory with the wldeploy ant task. It claims it can't find any application files:
[Deployer:149003]Unable to access application source information in '/java_projects/vacd-webservices/dist/RealtimeStatsEar' for application 'RealtimeStats'. The specific error is: No application files exist.
<target name="build-realtimestats-service" depends="clean">
<taskdef name="jwsc" classname="weblogic.wsee.tools.anttasks.JwscTask"/>
<jwsc srcdir="src/java" destdir="${distdir}/RealtimeStatsEar">
<jws file="com/wic/vacd/wsimpl/realtimeStats/RealtimeStatsImpl.java"/>
</jwsc>
</target>
<target name="deploy-realtimestats-service-devel">
<taskdef name="wldeploy" classname="weblogic.ant.taskdefs.management.WLDeploy"/>
<wldeploy action="deploy"
debug="true"
name="RealtimeStats"
source="${distdir}\RealtimeStatsEar"
user="system"
password="wicsysdev"
adminurl="removed for security">
targets="7001" />
</target>
Under the dist directory exists a directory named RealtimeStatsEar that contains a war file (under the appropriate package path), a META-INF directory and a APP-INF directory. Both those directories contain the appropriate descriptor files so I really don't know why it claims it can't find the files.
I have followed the docs exactly and am having no luck deploying this thing.
This is with Weblogic 9.0.

Answer 1

Just want to mention that I do see a difference when I use the explode attribute on the jws task (its not on the jwsc task like I mentioned before).
The war file containing the service is expanded.