Generated REST war is invalid for deployment

Attached is the project set used to generate a war (also attached) that will produce the following error on the server when deployed:

16:51:11,391 ERROR [org.jboss.as.server] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) JBAS015870: Deploy of deployment "SysVDB.war" was rolled back with the following failure message:
{"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"SysVDB.war\".STRUCTURE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"SysVDB.war\".STRUCTURE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment \"SysVDB.war\"
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS018741: Failed to get manifest for deployment \"/content/SysVDB.war/WEB-INF/classes\"
Caused by: java.io.IOException: invalid manifest format"}}