Creating an exploded ear file.

[EJ Ciramella]

Hello again all -
 
One of developments biggest complaints is waiting for maven to build up
the actual war/ear file (sometimes it can take 20 min).  Is there a
simple way of having an ear project build into the target directory
(much like assembly:directory) in exploded format (including the
exploded war file)?
 
I don't see any flags in the earfile plugin to say -> don't create an
artifact, just create the exploded directory structure.