Cannot add maven dependencies to deployment assembly in ejb packaging

Question

I have a project with a POM that looks like this:

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <parent>
        <artifactId>my-parent</artifactId>
        <groupId>com.company</groupId>
        <version>2</version>
    </parent>

    <groupId>com.company</groupId>
    <artifactId>resources-silo</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>ejb</packaging>

    <name>Some EJB component</name>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-ejb-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <ejbVersion>3.0</ejbVersion>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <descriptorRefs>
                        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                    </descriptorRefs>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>simple-command</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>attached</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <inherited>false</inherited>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>


    <dependencies>
        <!-- some jars ... -->
    </dependencies>

</project>

I want to use m2eclipse with m2e-wtp to deploy this project to Glassfish 3. However, m2e-wtp does not deploy the dependencies. I know that building superjars with jar-with-dependencies is probably not the way to go for EJB projects, but I cannot really change this without messing up the customer's build / deployment processes.

So, the problem is that the deployment assembly wizard does not display the maven dependencies:

I need a solution that works without changing the pom.xml, since that would disturb the customer's build processes. I am aware that using an EAR would be the preferred solution here.

• Is the behaviour that I'm seeing a bug or is it an inherent limitation in the way m2e-wtp and the ejb packaging work?
• Is it even possible to have m2e-wtp extract dependency jars into the deployed application?