There is another pervasive xml parsing failure in the kernel tests involving the 1.0 schema binding. The issue is that the child passed into the ValueMetaDataElementInterceptor.add(Object parent, Object child, QName name) is the same object as the parent, and not a ValueMetaData instance as expected. I have not tracked down what jbossxb change would have altered the behavior.

18749 DEBUG [ArrayXMLTestCase] url=file:/home/svn/JBossMC/jbossmc/kernel/src/resources/xml-test/org/jboss/test/kernel/config/test/testArrayNotAArray.xml
930364 ERROR [ArrayXMLTestCase] Unexpected throwable
org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBException: Failed to parse source: file:/home/svn/JBossMC/jbossmc/kernel/src/resources/xml-test/org/jboss/test/kernel/config/test/testArrayNotAArray.xml@13,18
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser.parse(SaxJBossXBParser.java:164)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(UnmarshallerImpl.java:133)
 at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.deployment.xml.BasicXMLDeployer.deploy(BasicXMLDeployer.java:135)
 at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.support.XMLUtil.<init>(XMLUtil.java:76)
 at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.test.AbstractKernelConfigTest.bootstrapXML(AbstractKernelConfigTest.java:72)
 at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.test.ArrayXMLTestCase.arrayNotAArray(ArrayXMLTestCase.java:85)
 at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.test.ArrayTestCase.testArrayNotAArray(ArrayTestCase.java:267)
 at jrockit.reflect.VirtualNativeMethodInvoker.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;J)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
 at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
 at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
 at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
 at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
 at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
 at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
 at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
 at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
 at junit.extensions.TestDecorator.basicRun(TestDecorator.java:22)
 at junit.extensions.TestSetup$1.protect(TestSetup.java:19)
 at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
 at junit.extensions.TestSetup.run(TestSetup.java:23)
 at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.junit3.JUnit3TestReference.run(JUnit3TestReference.java:128)
 at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
 at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460)
 at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
 at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
 at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.beans.metadata.plugins.AbstractPropertyMetaData
 at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.deployment.xml.BeanSchemaBinding$ValueMetaDataElementInterceptor.add(BeanSchemaBinding.java:1280)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.SundayContentHandler.endElement(SundayContentHandler.java:1029)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.SundayContentHandler.endElement(SundayContentHandler.java:158)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser$DelegatingContentHandler.endElement(SaxJBossXBParser.java:295)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Lorg.apache.xerces.xni.QName;Lorg.apache.xerces.xni.Augmentations;)V(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.xinclude.XIncludeHandler.endElement(Lorg.apache.xerces.xni.QName;Lorg.apache.xerces.xni.Augmentations;)V(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement()I(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Z)Z(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Z)Z(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Z)Z(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Lorg.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLInputSource;)V(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Lorg.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLInputSource;)V(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Ljava.lang.String;)V(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Ljava.lang.String;)V(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser.parse(SaxJBossXBParser.java:160)
 at org.jboss.xb.binding.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(UnmarshallerImpl.java:133)
 at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.deployment.xml.BasicXMLDeployer.deploy(BasicXMLDeployer.java:135)
 at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.support.XMLUtil.<init>(XMLUtil.java:76)
 at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.test.AbstractKernelConfigTest.bootstrapXML(AbstractKernelConfigTest.java:72)
 at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.test.ArrayXMLTestCase.arrayNotAArray(ArrayXMLTestCase.java:85)
 at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.test.ArrayTestCase.testArrayNotAArray(ArrayTestCase.java:267)
 at jrockit.reflect.VirtualNativeMethodInvoker.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;J)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
 at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
 at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
 at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
 at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
 at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)