Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog

[rkhemka]

Hi All,

While trying to deploy an application to JBOSS 7.0.0 EAP I am getting the following error while deploying the application EAR in JBoss 7.0.0 EAP. though the same worked fine in Jboss 6.4 EAP. I did validated by .TLD file against the XML validator online. 

Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: WFLYUT0027: Failed to parse XML descriptor \"/C:/UI_Workspace/jboss-eap-7.0.0/jboss-eap-7.0/standalone/deployments/TAXEAR.ear/Tax.war/WEB-INF/lib/taglibs-application.jar\" at [1,0]

    Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog

([("deployment" => "TAXEAR.ear")]) - failure description: {"WFLYCTL0080: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.subunit.\"TAXEAR.ear\".\"Tax.war\".PARSE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit.\"TAXEAR.ear\".\"Tax.war\".PARSE: WFLYSRV0153: Failed to process phase PARSE of subdeployment \"Tax.war\" of deployment \"TAXEAR.ear\"

    Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: WFLYUT0027: Failed to parse XML descriptor \"/C:/UI_Workspace/jboss-eap-7.0.0/jboss-eap-7.0/standalone/deployments/TAXEAR.ear/Tax.war/WEB-INF/lib/taglibs-application.jar\" at [1,0]

    Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog

at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0]"}}

Below is the .TLD for ready reference

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">

<taglib>

<tlibversion>1.0.1</tlibversion>

<jspversion>1.1</jspversion>

<shortname>application</shortname>

<uri>http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/application-1.0</uri>

<info>application info </info>

<tag>

  <name>attribute</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.AttributeTag</tagclass>

  <bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

<tag>

  <name>attributes</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.AttributesTag</tagclass>

  <teiclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.AttributesTEI</teiclass>

  <bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>id</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>no</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

<tag>

  <name>equalsAttribute</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.EqualsAttributeTag</tagclass>

  <bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>value</name>

   <required>no</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>match</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>ignoreCase</name>

   <required>no</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

<tag>

  <name>existsAttribute</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.ExistsAttributeTag</tagclass>

  <bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>value</name>

   <required>no</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

<tag>

  <name>removeAttribute</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.RemoveAttributeTag</tagclass>

  <bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

<tag>

  <name>setAttribute</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.SetAttributeTag</tagclass>

  <bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

<tag>

  <name>initParameter</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.InitParameterTag</tagclass>

  <bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

<tag>

  <name>initParameters</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.InitParametersTag</tagclass>

  <teiclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.InitParametersTEI</teiclass>

  <bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>id</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>no</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

<tag>

  <name>equalsInitParameter</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.EqualsInitParameterTag</tagclass>

  <bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>value</name>

   <required>no</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>match</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>ignoreCase</name>

   <required>no</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

<tag>

  <name>existsInitParameter</name>

  <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.application.ExistsInitParameterTag</tagclass>

  <bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>

  <attribute>

   <name>name</name>

   <required>yes</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

  <attribute>

   <name>value</name>

   <required>no</required>

   <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

  </attribute>

</tag>

</taglib>

[jaikiran]

Can you paste the complete exception stacktrace?