EAR assembly as part of an EJB project

Hi, Would just like to find out: is it possibly to have an EAR assembly inside an EJB Maven project? It's really quite a hassle to create another POM declaration to package the EJB into an EAR. Creating the EAR project isn't the hassle, maintaining it is. If I can contain it within one project, th

Getting multi-POM project to be understood by IDE's properly?

Hi, I have a multi-project POM that works fine for compilation and work as a whole but is very difficult to work with in IDEs and when it comes to compiling sub components separately. The POM structure looks like this: Main POM --> EJB Project POM --> WAR Container POM --> WebApp WAR Project