AS7 ignores alt-dd element in EAR deployment descriptor application.xml

The <alt-dd> element in application.xml enables application assembler to specify alternate module deploymnet descriptor location. The element is ignored by AS7.

Example of such descriptor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_5.xsd"
version="5">
<description>Tests of the alt-dd behavior</description>

<module>
<web>
<web-uri>altdd-web.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/altdd-test</context-root>
</web>
<!-- Specify the ear relative path -->
<alt-dd>META-INF/altdd-web.xml</alt-dd>
</module>

</application>