Index: lams_common/build.xml
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diff -u -r5f2292ecb7bdb95af66ee5a9ba9e06eb533013f5 -r67e6bb6752138f9ac416c2119021b9507d7032c6
--- lams_common/build.xml	(.../build.xml)	(revision 5f2292ecb7bdb95af66ee5a9ba9e06eb533013f5)
+++ lams_common/build.xml	(.../build.xml)	(revision 67e6bb6752138f9ac416c2119021b9507d7032c6)
@@ -195,6 +195,11 @@
 			</fileset>
 		</copy>
 	</target>
+        <!-- effectively a synonym for lams-jar 
+            required by the master build script
+        -->
+        <target name="build-jar" depends="lams-jar"/>
+        
 	<!-- ================================================================ -->
 	<!-- Make jar archive for deployment        		    	          -->
 	<!-- ================================================================ -->
Index: lams_common/conf/j2ee/application.xml
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diff -u
--- lams_common/conf/j2ee/application.xml	(revision 0)
+++ lams_common/conf/j2ee/application.xml	(revision 67e6bb6752138f9ac416c2119021b9507d7032c6)
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.3//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd'>
+<application>
+    <display-name>LAMS</display-name>
+    <description>
+    Learning Activty Management System
+    </description>
+    <module>
+        <web>
+            <web-uri>lasm_central.war</web-uri>
+            <context-root>/lams</context-root>
+            <web-uri>lams_admin.war</web-uri>
+            <context-root>/lams/admin</context-root>
+            <web-uri>lams_authoring.war</web-uri>
+            <context-root>/lams/authoring</context-root>
+            <web-uri>lams_learning.war</web-uri>
+            <context-root>/lams/learning</context-root>
+            <web-uri>lams_monitoring.war</web-uri>
+            <context-root>/lams/monitoring</context-root>
+	</web>
+    </module>
+</application>
\ No newline at end of file
Index: lams_common/master-build.xml
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diff -u
--- lams_common/master-build.xml	(revision 0)
+++ lams_common/master-build.xml	(revision 67e6bb6752138f9ac416c2119021b9507d7032c6)
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project name="LAMS" default="usage" basedir=".">
+
+    <property name="jboss.home" value="/var/jboss"/>
+    <property name="assembly.dir" value="assembly"/>
+    <property name="lams.ear" value="${assembly.dir}/lams.ear"/>
+    <property name="temp.ear" value="${assembly.dir}/temp.ear"/>
+    <property name="lib.dir" value="lib"/>
+    <property name="app.xml" value="conf/j2ee/application.xml"/>
+    <property name="lams_common" value="lams_common"/>
+    <property name="lams_admin" value="lams_admin"/>
+    <property name="lams_learning" value="lams_learning"/>
+    <property name="lams_monitoring" value="lams_monitoring"/>
+    <property name="lams_authoring" value="lams_authoring"/>
+    <property name="lams_central" value="lams_central"/>
+    <property name="lams_contentrepository" value="lams_contentrepository"/>
+    <property name="sub.build.dir" value="build/lib"/>
+    <property name="lams.jar" value="${lams_common}/${sub.build.dir}/lams.jar"/>
+    <property name="lams_admin.war" value="${lams_admin}/${sub.build.dir}/lams_admin.war"/>
+    <property name="lams_learning.war" value="${lams_learning}/${sub.build.dir}/lams_learning.war"/>
+    <property name="lams_authoring.war" value="${lams_authoring}/${sub.build.dir}/lams_authoring.war"/>
+    <property name="lams_monitoring.war" value="${lams_monitoring}/${sub.build.dir}/lams_monitoring.war"/>
+    <property name="lams_central.war" value="${lams_central}/${sub.build.dir}/lams_central.war"/>
+    <property name="lams_contentrepository.jar" value="${lams_contentrepository}/${sub.build.dir}/lams_contentrepository.jar"/>
+    
+    <target name="init">
+        <mkdir dir="${assembly.dir}"/>
+    </target>
+    
+    <target name="usage" description="print usage message">
+    </target>
+    
+    <!-- clean dirs for this script only -->
+    <target name="clean" descriptions="cleans assembly">
+        <delete includeEmptyDirs="true" dir="${assembly.dir}" includes="**/*"/>
+    </target>
+    
+    <!-- clean all projects -->
+    <target name="clean-subporjects" descriptions="cleans sub projects">
+    </target>
+    
+    <!-- build sub-projects -->
+    <target name="build-subprojects" descriptions="builds sub porjects">
+        <ant antfile="../${lams_common}/build.xml" target="build-jar" inheritAll="false"/>
+        <ant antfile="../${lams_contentrepository}/build.xml"  target="build-jar" inheritAll="false"/>
+        <!--
+        <ant antfile="../${lams_admin}/build.xml" target="build-war" inheritAll="false"/>
+        <ant antfile="../${lams_authoring}/build.xml"  target="build-war" inheritAll="false"/>
+        <ant antfile="../${lams_learning}/build.xml" target="build-war" inheritAll="false"/>
+        <ant antfile="../${lams_monitoring}/build.xml"  target="build-war" inheritAll="false"/>
+        <ant antfile="../${lams_central}/build.xml" target="build-war" inheritAll="false"/>
+        -->
+    </target>
+    
+    <!-- assemble ear -->
+    <target name="assemble-ear" depends="init, clean, build-subprojects" descriptions="Assemble lasm ear in exploded form">
+        <!-- have to copy the libs etc. to a temp location otherwise we end up with all the directories under lib as well-->
+        <mkdir dir="${assembly.dir}/temp"/>
+        <copy todir="${assembly.dir}/temp" failonerror="true" flatten="true">
+            <fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
+                <patternset id="lib.jars">
+                    <include name="**/*.jar"/>
+                    <exclude name="middlegen/*"/>
+                    <exclude name="mysql/*"/>
+                    <exclude name="xdoclet/*"/>
+                    <exclude name="httpunit/*"/>
+                    <exclude name="junit/*"/>
+                    <exclude name="strutstestcase/*"/>
+                </patternset>   
+            </fileset>
+            <fileset dir="..">
+                <include name="${lams.jar}"/>
+                <include name="${lams_contentrepository.jar}"/>
+                <!--include name="lams_central.war"/>
+                <include name="lams_authoring.war"/>
+                <include name="lams_monitoring.war"/>
+                <include name="lams_learning.war"/>
+                <include name="lams_admin.war"/-->
+                
+            </fileset>
+        </copy>
+        <!-- create a temporary ear -->
+        <ear destfile="${temp.ear}" compress="false" appxml="${app.xml}">
+            <fileset dir="${assembly.dir}/temp" includes="*"/>
+        </ear>
+        <!-- remove temp lib -->
+        <delete dir="${assembly.dir}/temp" includeEmptyDirs="true"/>
+        <!-- explode the ear (Why doesn't the EAR task support exploded format?) -->
+        <unjar src="${temp.ear}" dest="${lams.ear}"/>
+        <!-- delete temp.ear -->
+        <delete file="${temp.ear}"/>
+    </target>
+    
+    
+    <!-- deploy -->
+    <target name="deploy-ear" descriptions="Assembles and deploy to jboss">
+        <copy todir="${jboss.deploy.dir}" overwrite="true" failonerror="true">
+            <fileset dir="${assembly.dir}/${lams.ear}"/>
+        </copy>
+    </target>
+    
+</project>