I have attched a few files to the thread:
1) A screenshot of the wizard that appears when i click on the "Java EE project" on the jboss central tab. In the description box you can see "Project based on the null:null:null Maven archetype" when the wizard is done no project is created.
2) A zip file containing the all the auto generated maven and eclipse files , after using the jboss-ee-6-web-ear 7.1.2 archetype (test-ear)
3)A zip file containing the all the auto generated maven and eclipse files , after using the multi-javaee6-archetype from http://open-archetypes.github.com/maven-repo/snapshots/ (test2)
In both of the projects 2,3 I added a lightweight depndency to the ear maven (flexjson), when I try to use classes from flexjson in the ejb project, eclipse cannot resolve them.
Only when i specifically add the jars from EAR/lib to the ejb using the "build path" option of eclipse it fins those classes.
Using mvn from command line works without any issues , so i assume this might be an issue with how eclispe handles the maven files.