Tron,
You’re correct: Orion only recognizes EAR files for autodeployment and will not recognize a WAR or any exploded archives, unfortunately.
Anyone know if MyEclipse can generate .ear files instead of .war?
Yes, it does. To deploy your web project as an EAR you need to create an EAR project and then associate your existing web project with it. Then, deploy your EAR project using our deployer and be sure to specify ‘packaged deployment’, rather than exploded.
When you use the project wizard to create the EAR project, be sure to ‘uncheck’ the option that asks if you want to also create a web and ejb project. Since you already have one, there will be a spot to pick it on one of the wizard pages.
–Scott
MyEclipse Support