I\'m trying to convince my providers to use ANT instead of Rational Application Development so anyone can recompile, recheck, redeploy the solution anyplace, anytime, anyhow
If you just want to play around why not use the netbeans IDE to generate your ear files. If you create an enterprise project it will automatically generate the ant files for you. Good for prototyping and just getting started :-)
There is even a was plugin which allows automated deployment however this seems very shakey!