What should an empty jboss.xml look like, in order not to fail in the following way: This is my empty jboss.xml: | <?xml version="1.0"?> | <jboss | xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee" | xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee | http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/jboss_5_0.xsd" | version="3.0"> | </jboss> | And the output: | C:\Java\jdk1.5.0_11\bin\java -Didea.launcher.port=7532 -Didea.launcher.bin.path=C:\JetBrains\IDEA6.0\bin -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath ... com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain Test | 19:34:04,484 ERROR [AbstractController] Error installing to Parse: name=vfsfile:/C:/projects/seam/examples/booking/resources/META-INF/jboss.xml state=Not Installed mode=Manual requiredState=Parse | org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: The xml is not well formed! | at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.SchemaResolverDeployer.parse(SchemaResolverDeployer.java:134) | at org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.deployer.AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.parse(AbstractVFSParsingDeployer.java:86) | at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:223) | at org.jboss.deployment.JBossEjbParsingDeployer.createMetaData(JBossEjbParsingDeployer.java:104) | at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.createMetaData(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:199) | at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.deploy(AbstractParsingDeployerWithOutput.java:162) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:169) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:853) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:794) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:327) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1309) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:734) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:862) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:784) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:622) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:411) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:498) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.deploy(MainDeployerImpl.java:386) | at Test.main(Test.java:62) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) | at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:90) | org.jboss.deployers.client.spi.IncompleteDeploymentException: Summary of incomplete deployments (SEE PREVIOUS ERRORS FOR DETAILS): | | *** DEPLOYMENTS MISSING DEPLOYERS: Name | | vfsfile:/C:/projects/seam/examples/booking/resources/META-INF/jboss.xml | | *** DEPLOYMENTS IN ERROR: Name -> Error | | vfsfile:/C:/projects/seam/examples/booking/resources/META-INF/jboss.xml -> org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: The xml is not well formed! | | | *** CONTEXTS IN ERROR: Name -> Error | | vfsfile:/C:/projects/seam/examples/booking/resources/META-INF/jboss.xml -> org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: The xml is not well formed! | | | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.checkComplete(DeployersImpl.java:696) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.checkComplete(DeployersImpl.java:642) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.deploy(MainDeployerImpl.java:399) | at Test.main(Test.java:62) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) | at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:90) | | Process finished with exit code 0 | My test: | import java.io.File; | import java.util.Collections; | | import org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController; | import org.jboss.deployers.client.spi.Deployment; | import org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl; | import org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl; | import org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.Deployer; | import org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.Deployers; | import org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.structure.VFSStructuralDeployersImpl; | import org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.structure.VFSStructureBuilder; | import org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.structure.file.FileStructure; | import org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.client.VFSDeploymentFactory; | import org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.structure.StructureDeployer; | import org.jboss.deployment.JBossEjbParsingDeployer; | import org.jboss.virtual.VFS; | import org.jboss.virtual.VirtualFile; | | /** | * @author alesj | */ | public class Test | { | public static void main(String[] args) | { | try | { | VFSDeploymentFactory factory = VFSDeploymentFactory.getInstance(); | File file = new File("C:\\projects\\seam\\examples\\booking\\resources\\META-INF\\jboss.xml"); | VirtualFile vf = VFS.getRoot(file.toURL()); | Deployment deployment = factory.createVFSDeployment(vf); | MainDeployerImpl main = new MainDeployerImpl(); | StructureDeployer fileDeployer = new FileStructure(); | VFSStructuralDeployersImpl structuralDeployers = new VFSStructuralDeployersImpl(Collections.singleton(fileDeployer)); | structuralDeployers.setStructureBuilder(new VFSStructureBuilder()); | main.setStructuralDeployers(structuralDeployers); | JBossEjbParsingDeployer jbossParser = new JBossEjbParsingDeployer(); | jbossParser.setUseSchemaValidation(false); | jbossParser.setUseValidation(false); | Deployer deployer = jbossParser; | Deployers deployers = new DeployersImpl(new AbstractController(), Collections.singleton(deployer)); | main.setDeployers(deployers); | main.deploy(deployment); | } | catch (Exception e) | { | e.printStackTrace(); | } | } | } | Otherwise I get a NPE, since there is no JBossMetaData instance in the attachments for Ejb3Deployer. | [testng] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException | [testng] at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository.initialise(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:101) | [testng] at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3HandlerFactory$DDFactory.<init>(Ejb3HandlerFactory.java:48) | [testng] at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3HandlerFactory.getInstance(Ejb3HandlerFactory.java:83) | [testng] at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.deploy(Ejb3Deployment.java:431) | [testng] at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.create(Ejb3Deployment.java:375) | [testng] at org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer.deploy(Ejb3Deployer.java:145) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4109424#... 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