Hi,

I am an long-time JBoss AS 4 user and I having a bit of trouble deciphering my deployment issues on JBoss AS 5. What I am finding is that the JBoss specific deployment descriptors are causing the deployers to reject the deployments. The error that they are exhibiting is:

Caused by: org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBRuntimeException: -1:-1 94:3 The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed.
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.XsdBinderTerminatingErrorHandler.handleError(XsdBinderTerminatingErrorHandler.java:40)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.reportDOMFatalError(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XSLoaderImpl.load(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.Util.loadSchema(Util.java:395)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.XsdBinder.bind(XsdBinder.java:175)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.XsdBinder.bind(XsdBinder.java:146)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.DefaultSchemaResolver.resolve(DefaultSchemaResolver.java:332)
 ... 51 more

I searched google and the JBoss community resources wiki/documentation/forums and the only reference I found to this indicates issues with poorly formed documents. However, I have checked the structure and validated the document with the specified DTD.

An example document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 2.4//EN" "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_2_4.dtd">
<jboss>
 <enterprise-beans>
 <session>
 <ejb-name>MyBean</ejb-name>
 <jndi-name>ejb/MyBean</jndi-name>
 <resource-ref>
 <res-ref-name>jdbc/EntityDB</res-ref-name>
 <jndi-name>java:jdbc/EntityDB</jndi-name>
 </resource-ref>
 </session>
 </enterprise-beans>
 <resource-managers>
 </resource-managers>
</jboss>

Does anyone know why is JBoss 5 kicking this out? I have successfully deployed the application components by removing the DTD declarations altogether, but I'd really like to get to the root cause of the issue.

Does JBoss 5 not support the legacy DTDs? If not, then why are they included in the docs/dtds directory of the installation?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Brent