Dear All,

I am getting following parsing error while deploying my ear file

8:00:03,078 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/D:/jboss-4.0.3/server/default/deploy/ilmsrel1_0.ear
rg.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Invalid XML: file=META-INF/jboss-app.xml@1:1; - nested throwable: (org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog.)
at org.jboss.metadata.XmlFileLoader.getDocument(XmlFileLoader.java:327)
at org.jboss.metadata.XmlFileLoader.getDocument(XmlFileLoader.java:257)
at org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer.init(EARDeployer.java:137)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:843)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:780)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:753)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor27.invoke(Unknown Source)

the jboss-app.xml file content is :

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

<!DOCTYPE jboss-app
PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD J2EE Application 1.3V2//EN"
"http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-app_3_2.dtd">
<jboss-app>
<loader-repository>acme.com:loader=ilmsrel1_0.ear</loader-repository>
</jboss-app>

I would appreciate if you can advise me the cause.

Regards,
Davis