I believe that means you have lines in the file that are more than 72 characters long. The specs for JAR file manifests limit lines to 72 characters or less.
You can work around that by one of 2 ways:
1. Read up on how to manage longer entries in JAR manifest files as documented on Sun's website.
2. Use
Ant to build the EAR and pass the info in as EAR task parameters. Ant will manage the text-continuation for you.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.