The ear plugin bug is not fixed since 2011?

[Seto]

Problem with the ear plugin

I’m trying to create an ear using with ear plugin. The ear project has a dependency on a war project, among other dependencies. Here’s a simplified version of the ear project’s build.gradle. apply plugin: 'ear' dependencies { deploy project(':mywar') ... } The mywar project uses the war plugin and seems to work fine, creating a war archive. However, when I try to assemble the ear, Gradle creates a jar archive of the war project and includes the jar as an ejb dependency! Even the appl…

Here’s the discussion for the bug. There’s a workaround.
https://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-1912
And here’s the bug reporting 5 years ago. And it’s never fixed.