Cannot deploy an EAR in exploded format

SourceForge Submitter: erezharari .
i'm trying to deploy an EAR in exploded format on jboss
3.2.5, but it fails: No META-INF/application.xml found

my EAR is as follows:
lib/
META-INF/application.xml
Site1.war/
Site2.war/

application.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems,
Inc.//DTD J2EE Application
1.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/application_1_3.dtd">
<application>
<display-name>Sites3</display-name>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>Site1.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/Site1</context-
root>
</web>
</module>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>Site2.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/Site2</context-
root>
</web>
</module>
</application>

ERROR:[org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer]: Could not
initialise deployment:
file:/d:/iBOLTPortal/Sites3.ear
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: No META-
INF/application.xml found
at org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer.init
(EARDeployer.java:117)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init
(MainDeployer.java:700)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy
(MainDeployer.java:635)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy
(MainDeployer.java:608)

...
ERROR:
[org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner]:
Incomplete
Deployment listing:
Incompletely deployed packages:
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@3715a959

{ url=file:/d:/iBOLTPortal/Sites3.ear }

deployer: org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer@70610a
status: null
state: FAILED
watch: file:/d:/iBOLTPortal/Sites3.ear
lastDeployed: 1096201105898
lastModified: 1096200770881
mbeans: