Do JBoss Seam applications have to be packages in an EAR?

Question

Is it possible to package up a Seam application as a WAR file? I am trying to deploy a current Seam application that was running in JBoss to JBoss 6. It is packaged as a WAR file, but every example included with the Seam download seem to be packaged in an EAR with the Seam jar and application code, both deployed as EJBs

Answer 1

Sharing the error message at deployment would be helpful.

Was the web application (file.war) referencing services not in the file.war?

Most projects are deployed as an ear because the ejb modules are packaged separately (see below application.xml). Take a look at the application.xml back on the original pre JBoss 6 server that it was running on. It likely it had other modules besides the war file.

<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_5.xsd"
version="5">
  <display-name>Seam Registration</display-name>
  <module>
    <web>
    <web-uri>jboss-seam-registration.war</web-uri>Chapter 1. Seam
    Tutorial 14 
    <context-root>/seam-registration</context-root></web>
  </module>
  <module>
    <ejb>jboss-seam-registration.jar</ejb>
  </module>
  <module>
    <ejb>jboss-seam.jar</ejb>
  </module>
  <module>
    <java>jboss-el.jar</java>
  </module>
</application>