In order to declare an exception type as an Application Exception using metadata you need
to package the exception with the corresponding ejb-jar.
If you prefer to package it outside the ejb-jar, you can still declare the Exception as
an Application Exception using the application-exception element in the assembly
descriptor portion of the ejb-jar's ejb-jar.xml.
--ken
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