Support standalone EJB application (ejbApplication jar) with liberty:dev mode

[tkburroughs]

For a maven project that builds an EJB jar and would like to deploy it to liberty using ejbApplication, liberty:dev currently results in the following message:

Skipping module ejbLite-4.0-ee10-jar-ann-test-app which is not included in this invocation of dev mode.

Attempting to use liberty:start will start the sever, but none of the features specified in server.xml are found.

Would be nice if liberty:dev mode supported standalone EJB jar modules.

For an example project see:
https://github.ibm.com/websphere/project-london/tree/main/sample-apps/ejbLite-4.0-ee10-jar-ann-test-app

[cherylking]

In general it seems we do not support the standalone ejb jar use case for any of the goals that deploy an application (dev, deploy, run, start). Some initial thoughts from Scott Kurz below on what this would entail:

• support 'jar' and/or 'ejb' packaging types for deploy
• support 'jar' and/or 'ejb' packaging types for loose apps (overlap but also more than the last)
• support 'jar' and/or 'ejb' packaging types for dev mode - dev mode has some logic on top of just calling the WAR and also multi-module awareness.. these types could probably pull in other app deps..e.g. each at least could have app 'jar' deps