anonymous wrote : I've actually given up on WTP's crummy "publish" mechanism | and gone and written a shell script to jar up and deploy the ear by hand. seam-gen actually has non WTP based build script tasks and that was my original objective. But, since most newbies really want tooling, I added WTP support. To do the non-WTP way: seam set-properties (make sure you select "N" when asked for WTP choice) seam scaffold-project [PROJECTNAME] seam deploy-project [PROJECTNAME] (will actually do same thing as WTP publish but w/ no tooling - build/deploy the ear to jboss) HTH others that grow irritated by WTP. I don't like it all that much either but I've got my fingers crossed that it'll get better. James View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3981527#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...