Gradle - Web Module in deployment descriptor - war

Question

I am trying to add a web module in an Ear file. I put it in my customized deployment descriptor using webModule(":wars/myweb","/mywebapp"). It is not including the war file in the ear file. It is just adding a entry in the generated application.xml with these details.
Can you please help in including a web module in ear, using customized deployment descriptor?
My ear task looks like this in build.gradle
ear {
libDirName ''
deploymentDescriptor {
// custom entries for application.xml:
// fileName = "application.xml" // same as the default value
version = "1.4" // same as the default value
applicationName = "myapp"
initializeInOrder = true
displayName = "myear" // defaults to project.name
description = "EAR for the basic package" // defaults to project.description
webModule(':wars/myweb','/mywebapp')
}
}
My settings.xml in the same dir as build.gradle looks like this
include "wars/myweb"
Appreciate your help.

Answer 1

I use this way to tie war dependencies to the webModules. The warMap provides a connection between the artifact id and the context path:
Map warMap = [
'my-war': 'contextpath',
'my2-war': 'contextpath2'
}
dependencies {
warMap.each {
deploy project(":$it.key")
}
}
ear {
deploymentDescriptor {
warMap.each {
webModule(it.key + '-' + project.version + ".war", it.value)
}
}
}