Gradle - Include multiple WAR projects in an EAR - gradle

Question

So I'm trying to create a root level ear project that will include multiple war projects and I can't seem to get it to work. To pare it down to the simplest level, lets suppose I have a directory structure like this:
myEar/
├── build.gradle
├── myWar1
│ ├── build.gradle
│ └── src
│ └── main
│ ├── java
│ │ └── com
│ │ └── foo
│ │ └── hello.java
│ ├── resources
│ └── webapp
│ ├── test.html
│ └── WEB-INF
│ └── web.xml
├── myWar2
│ ├── build.gradle
│ └── src
│ └── main
│ ├── java
│ │ └── com
│ │ └── foo
│ │ └── hello.java
│ ├── resources
│ └── webapp
│ ├── test.html
│ └── WEB-INF
│ └── web.xml
├── settings.gradle
└── src
└── main
└── application
└── application.xml
Each build.gradle file in the myWarX subporjects is simply this:
defaultTasks 'war'
apply plugin: 'war'
When I run gradle from inside the myWar1/2 folder I get the expected output:
jar -xvf myWar1.war
created: META-INF/
inflated: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
created: WEB-INF/
created: WEB-INF/classes/
created: WEB-INF/classes/com/
created: WEB-INF/classes/com/foo/
inflated: WEB-INF/classes/com/foo/hello.class
inflated: WEB-INF/web.xml
inflated: test.html
Now at the root project level myEar, I have the following settings.gradle file:
include ":myWar1", ":myWar2"
and build.gradle looks like this:
defaultTasks 'assemble'
allprojects {
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'war'
apply plugin: 'ear'
}
dependencies {
deploy project(path: ':myWar1', configuration: 'archives')
deploy project(path: ':myWar2', configuration: 'archives')
}
Now when I run this, it builds an myEar.ear file sure enough but both the war projects are being listed as myWar1/2.ear in the archive. In addition, if I expand out those ear files, it is missing things like the html files and the web.xml:
jar -xvf myEar.ear
created: META-INF/
inflated: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
inflated: myWar1.ear
inflated: myWar2.ear
inflated: application.xml
inflated: META-INF/application.xml
jar -xvf myWar1.ear
created: META-INF/
inflated: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
created: com/
created: com/foo/
inflated: com/foo/hello.class
inflated: META-INF/application.xml
It seems like there should be a simple solution to this but I can't for the life of me find it. Any help would be gratly appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcus.

Answer 1

ok I'm an idiot. It was because I am applying the 'ear' plugin to allprojects. If I replace:
allprojects {
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'war'
apply plugin: 'ear'
}
with simply
apply plugin 'ear'
everything works as intended.