[jboss-user] [JBoss Tools (users)] - help - blasted deployment has stopped working from eclipse

help please I have a seam EAR project that used to deploy - and has now stopped. essentially its doing an exploded deploy (at least i cant find any .ear archive in the source tree. the EarContent/META-INF/application.xml file in the eclipse workspace ear project, and all the code compiles. when i start jboss in eclipse and tell it to deply the project - eclipse copies the ear project to the deploy directory - however it doesnt copy the application.xml for the jboss deploy directory META-INF directory! it does copy the jboss-app.xml file though. the deployer reader then fails with the error. | | 21:06:56,649 INFO [EARDeployer] Init J2EE application: file:/C:/jboss/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/ForstersList-ear.ear/ | 21:06:56,649 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/C:/jboss/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/ForstersList-ear.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.GeneratedMethodAccessor20.invoke(Unknown Source) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) | 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 $Proxy9.deploy(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:421) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:634) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:225) | | worse i have another simple app (hello world) and that does deolpy the application.xml file - but i cant see what controls this. My real app just doesnt. I have had other problems when you deploy and jboss tools doesnt deploy the seam jar files - however if i copy them in by hand - the deployer detects that and then completes the deploy - cant understand that either. get a problem un undeploy as well where is essentially reports a similar problem - whilst annoying this doesnt usually stop you redeploying. whats going on - any ideas please i cant work like this its stopping me get on with the design View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4149227#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...