jboss-web.xml is not well formed EAP5.1

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Issue

  • We have a WAR file with the following schema declaration contained in WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <jboss-web xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee"  
               xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
               xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/jboss-web_5_1.xsd"   >
    <security-domain>java:/jaas/somename</security-domain>
    <context-root>/someContextRoot</context-root>
</jboss-web>
  • Deploying the WAR results in the following error:
ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Parse: name=vfszip:/C:/jboss/eap5.1.0/jboss-eap-5.1/jboss-as/server/all/deploy/Some.ear/ state=PreParse mode=Manual requiredState=Parse org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error creating managed object for vfszip:/C:/jboss/eap5.1.0/jboss-eap-5.1/jboss-as/server/all/deploy/Some.ear/SomeWebApp.war/
            at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49)
            at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:362)
            at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:322)
            at org.jboss.deployment.JBossWebAppParsingDeployer.createMetaData(JBossWebAppParsingDeployer.java:103)
            at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:294)
            at org.jboss.deployment.JBossWebAppParsingDeployer.createMetaData(JBossWebAppParsingDeployer.java:75)
            at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.deploy(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:234)
            at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:179)
            at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1454)
            at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1172)
            at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1225)
            at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1113)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1652)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:938)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:988)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:826)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:556)
            at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:789)
            at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:699)
            at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117)
            at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.ProfileDeployAction.install(ProfileDeployAction.java:70)
            at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53)
            at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:403)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1652)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:938)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:988)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:778)
            at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:543)
            at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.registerProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:308)
            at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:256)
            at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461)
            at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221)
            at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)
            at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
    Caused by: java.lang.Exception: The xml Some.ear/SomeWebApp.war/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml is not well formed!
            at org.jboss.xb.util.JBossXBHelper.parse(JBossXBHelper.java:191)
            at org.jboss.xb.util.JBossXBHelper.parse(JBossXBHelper.java:166)
            at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.SchemaResolverDeployer.parse(SchemaResolverDeployer.java:137)
            at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.SchemaResolverDeployer.parse(SchemaResolverDeployer.java:121)
            at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.parseAndInit(AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.java:304)
            at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.parseAndInit(AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.java:286)
            at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.parse(AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.java:203)
            at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:348)
            ... 36 more

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1

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