Hi All,

         I am having problem with the deployment of an ear on JBoss AS 7. It has a "jboss-app.xml" file with the following structure.

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

<!DOCTYPE jboss-app

        PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD J2EE Application 4.2//EN"

        "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-app_4_2.dtd">

<jboss-app>

    <loader-repository>

        com.osi:archive=nxservices

    </loader-repository>

    <module>

        <service>osi-topics-service.xml</service>

    </module>

    <module>

        <service>osi-properties-service.xml</service>

    </module>

    <module>

        <service>dmpjca-ds.xml</service>

    </module>

    <module>

        <service>osi-tt-config-service.xml</service>

    </module>

</jboss-app>

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The error caused from the presence of jboss-app.xml is as follows.

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16:52:35,271 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-7) JBAS015877: Stopped deployment Services_copy.ear in 19ms

16:52:35,273 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-8) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "Services_copy.ear"

16:52:35,273 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) JBAS015863: Replacement of deployment "Services_copy.ear" by deployment "Services_copy.ear" was rolled back with failure message {"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"Services_copy.ear\".STRUCTURE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"Services_copy.ear\".STRUCTURE: Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment \"Services_copy.ear\""}}

16:52:36,255 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-1) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."Services_copy.ear".STRUCTURE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."Services_copy.ear".STRUCTURE: Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment "Services_copy.ear"

    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:119) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]

    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]

    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]

    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_13]

    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_13]

    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_13]

Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS011060: Failed to process children for EAR ["/C:/jbossAS7/bin/content/Services_copy.ear"]

    at org.jboss.as.ee.structure.EarStructureProcessor.deploy(EarStructureProcessor.java:218)

    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:113) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]

    ... 5 more

Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file

    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_13]

    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_13]

    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_13]

    at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_13]

    at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source) [rt.jar:1.7.0_13]

    at org.jboss.vfs.spi.JavaZipFileSystem.<init>(JavaZipFileSystem.java:97)

    at org.jboss.vfs.spi.JavaZipFileSystem.<init>(JavaZipFileSystem.java:83)

    at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZip(VFS.java:408)

    at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZip(VFS.java:434)

    at org.jboss.as.ee.structure.EarStructureProcessor.mount(EarStructureProcessor.java:223)

    at org.jboss.as.ee.structure.EarStructureProcessor.createResourceRoot(EarStructureProcessor.java:242)

    at org.jboss.as.ee.structure.EarStructureProcessor.deploy(EarStructureProcessor.java:176)

    ... 6 more

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But if I remove this "jboss-ap.xml" it deploys without any error. But there is an issue while working with this deployed ear.

Please help me how can I get around the problem.

Thanks

Ankit