Issue

• While migrating EAP5 based project to EAP6 which contains META-INF/jboss-app.xml causes the following Error at the time of deployment:

23:13:46,366 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "TestEJBRef_EAP6.ear"
23:13:46,539 WARN  [org.jboss.metadata.parser.jboss.JBossAppMetaDataParser] (MSC service thread 1-8) module-order element in jboss-app.xml is deprecated and has been ignored
23:13:46,667 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-8) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."TestEJBRef_EAP6.ear".STRUCTURE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."TestEJBRef_EAP6.ear".STRUCTURE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment "TestEJBRef_EAP6.ear"
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:123) [jboss-as-server-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA-redhat-2.jar:1.0.2.GA-redhat-2]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA-redhat-2.jar:1.0.2.GA-redhat-2]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) [rt.jar:1.7.0_05]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) [rt.jar:1.7.0_05]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_05]
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS011059: Failed to parse "/NotBackedUp/JBoss_All/jboss-eap-6.0.1/standalone/deployments/TestEJBRef_EAP6.ear/META-INF/jboss-app.xml"
    at org.jboss.as.ee.structure.EarMetaDataParsingProcessor.handleJbossMetadata(EarMetaDataParsingProcessor.java:126)
    at org.jboss.as.ee.structure.EarMetaDataParsingProcessor.deploy(EarMetaDataParsingProcessor.java:67)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:116) [jboss-as-server-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
    ... 5 more
Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Received non-all-whitespace CHARACTERS or CDATA event in nextTag().
 at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [6,22]
    at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.constructWfcException(StreamScanner.java:606)
    at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwParseError(StreamScanner.java:479)
    at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwParseError(StreamScanner.java:464)
    at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextTag(BasicStreamReader.java:1137)
    at org.jboss.metadata.parser.jboss.JBossAppMetaDataParser.parse(JBossAppMetaDataParser.java:95)
    at org.jboss.as.ee.structure.EarMetaDataParsingProcessor.handleJbossMetadata(EarMetaDataParsingProcessor.java:123)
    ... 7 more

• The $EAR/META-INF/jboss-app.xml file looks as following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss-app PUBLIC
                "-//JBoss//DTD Java EE Application 5.0//EN"
                "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-app_5_0.dtd">
<jboss-app>
  <module-order>strict</module-order>
  <loader-repository>abc.test:loader=Testapp</loader-repository>
</jboss-app>