Hi,
i added the following entry to components.xml
<web:character-encoding-filter encoding="UTF-8" override-client="true" url-pattern="*.seam"/>
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:421) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:610) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:225) Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 58 of document : The prefix "web" for element "web:character-encoding-filter" is not bound. Nested exception: The prefix "web" for element "web:character-encoding-filter" is not bound. at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:482) at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:343) at org.jboss.seam.util.XML.getRootElement(XML.java:16) at org.jboss.seam.init.Initialization.initComponentsFromXmlDocument(Initialization.java:133) ... 92 more
You need to declare the "web" namespace in the document root element.