My gratitude to all who responded to my first question.
Thank you.
As you may be able to tell, I am very new to server side stuff.
I re-did the entire ear file from the ground up
using jar and was able to deploy the app.
Unfortunate, the next roadblock was an error message
complaining about the
you dont seem to be giving any permissions to your methods.
in the method-permission element you are just listing all the methods but
are not defining the roles with permissions to the methods. you are also not
defining any roles. i would recommend removing the entire method-permission
element