Hi Michal!  Thank you for getting back to me!  Fixing the problem in Maven may be the way to go - but I stink at Maven - lol - so figured it'd be easier to just get it working in eclipse as a normal project.  I figured it would have just built and deployed normally as I do any other ear or war but you're likely right in that since it was created for numerous other app servers theres likely something misconfigured. The artifact that was missing also had to be added to the Dynamic web project to get it to build properly so I did/do have the offending jar just not sure if or how to add it to the local maven repository.  I was also a little confused as to which jboss profile to run, e.g. remote, managed or wildfly.

Here's the WAR.  I'll try the Maven again and put the error here

Thanks Again!

Jay

Hi Michal!  Well, so I guess when I manually had to copy the "offending" jar/artifact to get the Eclipse project to build properly I also *semi* corrected the problem with the maven build as now it compiles!  Whoot!  Thank you for pushing me to try it again.  Note, I still get the missing POM error, e.g. "[WARNING] The POM for org.richfaces:richfaces-build-resources:jar:4.5.17.Final is missing, no dependency information available"

And I also get this warning which I didnt spend too much time trying to resolve, again I'm a maven newb :-) "[WARNING] The project org.richfaces.examples:richfaces-showcase:war:4.5.17.Final uses prerequisites which is only intended for maven-plugin projects but not for non maven-plugin projects. For such purposes you should use the maven-enforcer-plugin. See https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/enforcer-rules/requireMavenVersion.html"

But it did/does now create a war!

So I tried to build profile 

C:\local_git_repo\PSD\java_libs\richfaces-distribution-4.5.17.Final\examples\richfaces-showcase>C:\Apps\apache-maven-3.5.0\bin\mvn -fpom.xml -Pjee6 install

And, excuse how I'm going about replying to this as trying to not waste your invaluable time but I'm making live updates to the "reply" prior to "replying"

So Update, building the above profile WORKED! WHOOT!  You're awesome!  Richfaces showcase now loads in JBoss EAP 7! and at least a couple things I tried to run Poll, CommandLink and Command Button are working!

So to help others, to get this working:
1.  I had to download richfaces-build-resources4.5.17.Final.jar and place it in the following directory (your path may vary (especially as this is windows I'm developing on))

C:\Users\<YOUR USER ID>\.m2\repository\org\richfaces\richfaces-build-resources\4.5.17.Final

2.  After running "mvn -fpom.xml -Pjee6 install" - the WAR was still missing the hibernate sql jar, so I manually placed the hsqldb-j5-2.0.0.jar in the zipped wars WEB-INF lib folder, redeployed and no complaints

3.  I do still get an exception

09:21:05,865 FINE  [org.richfaces.log.Resource] (default task-3) could not load myfaces resource utils class: org.apache.myfaces.shared.renderkit.html.util.ResourceUtils: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.myfaces.shared.renderkit.html.util.ResourceUtils from [Module "deployment.richfaces-showcase-jee6.war:main" from Service Module Loader]

But this looks to be easily solvable!

Thanks Again Michal!  You're awesome!

In hindsight, ROFL - you're right - the src folders empty compared to the working one - that should be easy to correct?  I also had to remove "hsqldb-j5-2.0.0.jar" from the open shift excludes list as it was being used by the jee6 profile and that lib is needed when deploying in JBoss 7

PS:  meh, the easy to correct - not so much, looks like I'd need to remove the other versions of source, for example the tomcat source to get it to deploy as an eclipse (not maven) built war - oh well, another day.  Maven works and forces me to get the hang of it more ;-)

Thanks Again Michal