Have you found a resolution to this? I had a similar problem building a tag library JAR. We ended up creating it manually at the end of our build and putting it into souce control. Not pretty. For some reason the JDK's jar command didn't work either. Structurally, the contents are identical. - Kit -----Original Message----- From: Marc Rabil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 7:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't Get an Ant-generated EAR to open with J2EE reference edition Deploytool I can't seem to get an ear file created with ANT (v1.1 or 1.3) to open in the reference implementation deploytool (version 1.2.1). I am using Windows 2000 and have tried both JDK 1.3.0-C and 1.3.1. I get a message window upon trying to open the ant-generated ear with File>Open Application in the deploytool GUI saying: "myapp.ear does not appear to be a valid application archive". Oddly enough, if I create an ear in the deploytool (which can subsequently be opened without a problem), extract its contents and then repackage those exact same files using ANT it still doesn't work. If I just use WinZip to zip up these same files and then rename the zip as an ear it works fine! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Marc
