Instalar EAR JBOSS - No META-INF/application.xml found

Srs, tudo bem?

Tenho um problema que não estou conseguindo resolver e venho pedir ajuda, segue:

No servidor onde irei instalar minha aplicação só poderá ser feito deploy do pacote em .EAR, ou seja eu exporto minha aplicação no Ecplise para aplicacao.ear.
Feito isto, ao jogar a aplicacao.EAR no servidor /opt/jboss/server/portal/deploy ele me devolve um erro informando que No META-INF/application.xml found.

Minha IGNORÂNCIA É:
Minha aplicação não tem este arquivo application.xml na pasta META-INF. Pq o JBOSS necessita deste arquivo?
Exportanto o EAR diretamente no eclipse, não deveria ser um EAR perfeito?
No TomCat funciona certinho, mas claro usando o .WAR.

Segue o Erro:

21:26:34,615 INFO  [EARDeployer] Init J2EE application: file:/opt/jboss/server/portal/deploy/portalgcEAR.ear
21:26:34,636 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/opt/jboss/server/portal/deploy/portalgcEAR.ear
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: No META-INF/application.xml found
        at org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer.init(EARDeployer.java:146)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:872)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:809)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor26.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
        at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
        at $Proxy10.deploy(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:421)
        at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:634)
        at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263)
        at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner.startService(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:336)
        at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:289)
        at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:245)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor5.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
        at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:978)
        at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:417)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor10.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
        at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
        at $Proxy4.start(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:302)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:1025)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:819)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:766)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:592)
        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94)
        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
        at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
        at $Proxy5.deploy(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:482)
        at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:362)
        at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:200)
        at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:508)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
21:26:34,924 ERROR [URLDeploymentScanner] Incomplete Deployment listing:

--- Incompletely deployed packages ---
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@c10617e3 { url=file:/opt/jboss/server/portal/deploy/portalgcEAR.ear }
  deployer: org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer@d1b72d
  status: null
  state: FAILED
  watch: file:/opt/jboss/server/portal/deploy/portalgcEAR.ear
  altDD: null
  lastDeployed: 1307665594617
  lastModified: 1307665594000
  mbeans:


21:26:35,286 INFO  [Http11Protocol] Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-127.0.0.1-8280
21:26:35,366 INFO  [AjpProtocol] Starting Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-127.0.0.1-8209
21:26:35,380 INFO  [Server] JBoss (MX MicroKernel) [4.2.2.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_4_2_2_GA date=200710221139)] Started in 41s:483ms

Olá!

O EAR não é só uma aplicação WEB, ele pode conter EJBs, war, etc. O application.xml descreve o que tem no EARdeployment descriptor), olhe um exemplo desse arquivo tirado desse site: http://www.huihoo.org/jboss/online_manual/3.0/ch13s72.html

 <application>
     <display-name>My Application</display-name>

      <module>
         <web>
            <web-uri>web-app.war</web-uri>
            <context-root>/myapp</context-root>
         </web>
      </module>

      <module>
         <ejb>ejb-app.jar</ejb>
      </module>
 </application>

o WAR jé só uma aplicação WEB…

Sobre o eclipse não exportar esse arquivo, deve ser pq ele é específico do JBoss, você está usando JBoss Tools?

[]'s

Jesuino obrigado pelo retorno e desculpa a demora, só retomei agora isto.

Então, eu não estou usando o Jboss Tools.

Mas como faço para o eclipse exportar este arquivo METAINF/application.xml???