[JBoss] Excluding a webmodule from an ear

I have the following configuration inside my ear module:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<version>7</version>
<defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
<generateApplicationXml>false</generateApplicationXml>
<skinnyWars>true</skinnyWars>
<modules>
{other modules configurations}
<webModule>
<groupId>example.groupId</groupId>
<artifactId>test-support</artifactId>
<contextRoot>${contextRoot}</contextRoot>
<moduleId>test-support</moduleId>
<unpack>false</unpack>
<bundleFileName>test-support-${app.jndi.context}.war</bundleFileName>
<excluded>${exclude.test.war}</excluded>
</webModule>
</modules>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<archive>
<manifestEntries>
<Logging-Profile>${log-profile-name}</Logging-Profile>
</manifestEntries>
<manifest>
<addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
<addDefaultSpecificationEntries>true</addDefaultSpecificationEntries>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>


I need this webmodule to be excluded whenever the property exclude.test.war is true, since it's a module used only for tests and shouldn't go to production. It seems like the file gets excluded correctly from the build (I can't see it in the target directory), but I can't deploy, because it's still listed in the application.xml and in the jboss-deployment-structure.xml. How can I configure these 2 to ignore the war, when it's excluded from the ear build?

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