JBAS010446: Failed to start RA deployment

Issue

• While JBoss startup, the custom resource adapter fails to start with the following exception:

15:34:42,356 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (ResourceAdapterDeploymentService Thread Pool -- 1) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.ra.deployment."connector.rar": org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.ra.deployment."connector.rar": JBAS010446: Failed to start RA deployment [connector]
        at org.jboss.as.connector.services.resourceadapters.deployment.AbstractResourceAdapterDeploymentService$1.run(AbstractResourceAdapterDeploymentService.java:279) [jboss-as-connector-7.3.0.Final-redhat-14.jar:7.3.0.Final-redhat-14]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_51]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_51]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [rt.jar:1.7.0_51]
        at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122) [jboss-threads-2.1.1.Final-redhat-1.jar:2.1.1.Final-redhat-1]
Caused by: org.jboss.jca.deployers.common.DeployException: com.temp.MyConnectionFactory not a valid connection definition
        at org.jboss.jca.deployers.common.AbstractResourceAdapterDeployer.findConnectionDefinitions(AbstractResourceAdapterDeployer.java:477) [ironjacamar-deployers-common-1.0.23.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.23.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.jca.deployers.common.AbstractResourceAdapterDeployer.createObjectsAndInjectValue(AbstractResourceAdapterDeployer.java:1357) [ironjacamar-deployers-common-1.0.23.Final-redhat-1.jar:1.0.23.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.as.connector.services.resourceadapters.deployment.ResourceAdapterXmlDeploymentService$AS7RaXmlDeployer.doDeploy(ResourceAdapterXmlDeploymentService.java:185) [jboss-as-connector-7.3.0.Final-redhat-14.jar:7.3.0.Final-redhat-14]
        at org.jboss.as.connector.services.resourceadapters.deployment.ResourceAdapterXmlDeploymentService.start(ResourceAdapterXmlDeploymentService.java:106) [jboss-as-connector-7.3.0.Final-redhat-14.jar:7.3.0.Final-redhat-14]
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_51]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_51]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [rt.jar:1.7.0_51]