Web application deployment fails with a SAXException in JBoss EAP

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Issue

  • The web application fails to deploy with the following exception message:-

    ERROR [org.jboss.kernel.plugins.dependency.AbstractKernelController] (HDScanner) Error installing to Parse: name=vfszip:/home/jboss-ewp-5.1/jboss-as-web/server/someServer/deploy/test.war/ state=PreParse mode=Manual requiredState=Parse
    
    org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error creating managed object for vfszip:/home/jboss-ewp-5.1/jboss-as-web/server/someServer/deploy/test.war/
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49)
        at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:362)
        .......
        .......
    Caused by: org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBException: Failed to parse source: The content of element type "web-app" must match "(icon?,display-name?,description?,distributable?,context-param*,filter*,filter-mapping*,listener*,servlet*,servlet-mapping*,session-config?,mime-mapping*,welcome-file-list?,error-page*,taglib*,resource-env-ref*,resource-ref*,security-constraint*,login-config?,security-role*,env-entry*,ejb-ref*,ejb-local-ref*)". @ vfszip:/home/jboss-ewp-5.1/jboss-as-web/server/someServer/deploy/test.war/WEB-INF/web.xml[100,12]
    
        at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser.parse(SaxJBossXBParser.java:203)
        at org.jboss.xb.binding.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(UnmarshallerImpl.java:168)
    
  • The web.xml file contains the following entries:-

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
    <web-app>
         <servlet>
            <servlet-name>FooServlet</servlet-name>
            <display-name>FooServlet</display-name>
            <description>FooServlet</description>
            <servlet-class>org.jboss.sample.FooServlet</servlet-class>
         </servlet>
         <welcome-file-list>
            <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
        </welcome-file-list>
        <error-page>
           <error-code>404</error-code>
           <location>/error.jsp</location>
       </error-page>
       <session-config>
          <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
       </session-config>
     </web-app>
    

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 4.3.x
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.x

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