Hi,
I am trying to deploy a very simple ejb's using the deployment descriptor given below. It gives me the following exception.
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-3.2.3/server/default/deploy/hello.jar
12:17:17,746 ERROR [MainDeployer] could not create deployment: file:/C:/jboss-3.
2.3/server/default/deploy/hello.jar
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: ejb-jar.xml must define a valid DOCTYP
E!
at org.jboss.metadata.ApplicationMetaData.importEjbJarXml(ApplicationMet
aData.java:206)
at org.jboss.metadata.XmlFileLoader.load(XmlFileLoader.java:141)
at org.jboss.ejb.EJBDeployer.create(EJBDeployer.java:436)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.create(MainDeployer.java:786)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:641)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:605)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor18.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBea
nDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy6.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymen
tScanner.java:302)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentS
canner.java:476)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.
doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:201)
at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner.startService(A
bstractDeploymentScanner.java:274)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:1
92)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBea
nDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceControl
ler.java:976)
at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:394)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor5.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBea
nDispatcher.java:284)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:546)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy4.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:226)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:832)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:642)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:605)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:589)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBea
nDispatcher.java:284)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise
JavaBeans 2.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd">

<ejb-jar>
HelloBean
<display-name>HelloBean</display-name>
<enterprise-beans>

<ejb-name>HelloBean</ejb-name>
com.ws.HelloHome
com.ws.HelloRemote
<ejb-class>com.ws.HelloBean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Bean</transaction-type>
<ejb-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>HelloBean</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type>
com.ws.HelloHome
com.ws.HelloRemote
</ejb-ref>


</enterprise-beans>
</ejb-jar>