Gradle ear is putting JAR instead of WAR - war

Question

I'm trying to build an ear using Gradle.
I've my project tree like:
/project
|
|--> /web-application
| |
| |--> /src (stuff of web app)
| |
| |--> build.gradle
|
|--> build-gradle
|--> settings.gradle
I'm trying to generate the ear using the ear plugin, but when I do gradle assemble I have the war created under the build directory of the web-application, but inside the generated ear I have a jar of the web application.
The gradle configuration files are very simple, here they are:
project/build.gradle
apply plugin: 'ear'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
deploy project(':web-application')
earlib group: 'log4j', name: 'log4j', version: '1.2.15', ext: 'jar'
}
project/web-application/build.gradle
apply plugin: 'war'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile group: 'log4j', name: 'log4j', version: '1.2.15', ext: 'jar'
}
What I did wrong?
I notice that also the bundled samples for the war plugin, have the same problem...
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

SOLVED!
It needs to configure the WAR module inside the EAR project as:
dependencies {
deploy project(path:':web-application', configuration:'archives')
earlib group: 'log4j', name: 'log4j', version: '1.2.15', ext: 'jar'
}

Answer 2

You can avoid specifying a configuration for each deploy dependency using something like this:
allprojects {
plugins.withType(WarPlugin) {
// Set default configuration as WAR archive if WAR plugin is used
configurations {
'default' {
extendsFrom = [archives]
}
}
}
}
...
dependencies {
deploy project(':web-application')
}