From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:57:55 PST

When doing a directory deployment for ear (with exploded folder), you need to have the sub modules in exploded form as well, and the directory should end with "_jar", "_rar", "_war" etc. For example:

foo/
  abc_war/
     WEB-INF/
     ...
   xyz_jar/
      ...
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