Jesper Pedersen wrote:
No, an .ear is an .ear as defined by EE 6.
The new proposed archive certainly sounds like a compromise that could possibly work, at least for deployment to production servers.
I do wonder why you think an .ear with an embedded data source is not an .ear as defined by Java EE 6. Isn't the META-INF folder in an .ear allowed or actually intended to contain files concerning meta issues (e.g. deployment)?