freakyprogrammer [https://community.jboss.org/people/freakyprogrammer] created the discussion "com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Received non-all-whitespace CHARACTERS or CDATA event in nextTag(). when JMS stuff added to standalone.xml" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/827418#827418 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi I am trying to configure horneq in my server to perform JMS in my standalone.xml as per  this link. https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/Messaging+configuration https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/Messaging+configuration. But I am getting the exception while starting the server. I got the following exception. 17:06:11,609 ERROR [org.jboss.as.server] JBAS015956: Caught exception during boot: org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationPersistenceException: JBAS014676: Failed to parse configuration           at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:141) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]           at org.jboss.as.server.ServerService.boot(ServerService.java:266) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]           at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:155) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]           at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:780) [vm.jar:1.7.0] Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Received non-all-whitespace CHARACTERS or CDATA event in nextTag(). at javax.xml.stream.SerializableLocation@368d5a7e           at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.constructWfcException(StreamScanner.java:606)           at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwParseError(StreamScanner.java:479)           at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwParseError(StreamScanner.java:464)           at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextTag(BasicStreamReader.java:1137)           at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLExtendedStreamReaderImpl.nextTag(XMLExtendedStreamReaderImpl.java:152) [staxmapper-1.1.0.Final.jar:1.1.0.Final]           at org.jboss.as.messaging.MessagingSubsystemParser.processHornetQServer(MessagingSubsystemParser.java:226)           at org.jboss.as.messaging.MessagingSubsystemParser.readElement(MessagingSubsystemParser.java:156)           at org.jboss.as.messaging.MessagingSubsystemParser.readElement(MessagingSubsystemParser.java:119)           at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.processNested(XMLMapperImpl.java:110) [staxmapper-1.1.0.Final.jar:1.1.0.Final]           at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLExtendedStreamReaderImpl.handleAny(XMLExtendedStreamReaderImpl.java:69) [staxmapper-1.1.0.Final.jar:1.1.0.Final]           at org.jboss.as.server.parsing.StandaloneXml.parseServerProfile(StandaloneXml.java:894) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]           at org.jboss.as.server.parsing.StandaloneXml.readServerElement_1_1(StandaloneXml.java:330) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]           at org.jboss.as.server.parsing.StandaloneXml.readElement(StandaloneXml.java:127) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]           at org.jboss.as.server.parsing.StandaloneXml.readElement(StandaloneXml.java:100) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]           at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.processNested(XMLMapperImpl.java:110) [staxmapper-1.1.0.Final.jar:1.1.0.Final]           at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.parseDocument(XMLMapperImpl.java:69) [staxmapper-1.1.0.Final.jar:1.1.0.Final]           at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:133) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final]           ... 3 more I have added everything like <extension moduel="org.jboss.as.messaging"> and ports too. I didn't find any exact reason or resolution for this online. Please help me. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/827418#827418] Start a new discussion in JBoss AS 7 Development at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]