"wolfc" wrote : I don't like the exception coming from the parse method, they're non-descriptive. I should have said: I don't like the exception coming from the deployer. org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: The xml META-INF/jboss.xml is not well formed! It's actually: Can't find any root element matching the given namespace. Some reference to some doc might be nice, because the code nowhere points out to SchemaResolverConfig which is setup in metadata-beans.xml. Next one: http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/projects/metadata/trun... Works okay in jboss-metadata, but not in trunk. org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBRuntimeException: -1:-1 154:3 The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4094474#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...