A singleton can not add a init-method via ejb-jar.xml descriptor because it fail with Parser Exception ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: WFLY-11996 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-11996 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Components: EJB Affects Versions: 17.0.0.Beta1 Reporter: Wolf-Dieter Fink Assignee: Cheng Fang Priority: Major If a Singelton EJB should be created without annotation and use ejb-jar.xml to declare it this will work for mostly all but not for init-method element. The class is a POJO without annotations, the ejb-jar.xml looks like followed ------ <ejb-jar xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_2.xsd" version="3.2"> <enterprise-beans> <session> <ejb-name>StartupSingletonBean</ejb-name> <display-name>JBossInit</display-name> <description>JBoss startup class</description> <ejb-class>org.jboss.wfink.ejb31.singleton.StartupSingletonBean</ejb-class> <session-type>Singleton</session-type> <init-on-startup>true</init-on-startup> <init-method>test23</init-method> --- > this is where the Exception row/col point to <env-entry> <description>an example for a environment value</description> <env-entry-name>myString</env-entry-name> <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type> <env-entry-value>MyString from the ejb-jar.xml :)</env-entry-value> </env-entry> </session> </enterprise-beans> ..... -------- The Exception is this: 15:27:29,450 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-3) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."simpleEJB31.ear"."ejb.jar".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."simpleEJB31.ear"."ejb.jar".PARSE: WFLYSRV0153: Failed to process phase PARSE of subdeployment "ejb.jar" of deployment "simpleEJB31.ear" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:183) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1738) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.execute(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1700) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ControllerTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1558) at org.jboss.threads.ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.run(ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.java:35) at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor.safeRun(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1982) at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.doRunTask(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1486) at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1377) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: WFLYEJB0085: Exception while parsing ejb-jar.xml: /content/simpleEJB31.ear/ejb.jar/META-INF/ejb-jar.xml at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.EjbJarParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.parseEjbJarXml(EjbJarParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.java:275) at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.EjbJarParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.deploy(EjbJarParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.java:126) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:176) ... 8 more Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Received non-all-whitespace CHARACTERS or CDATA event in nextTag(). at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [18,25] at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.constructWfcException(StreamScanner.java:621) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwParseError(StreamScanner.java:491) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwParseError(StreamScanner.java:475) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextTag(BasicStreamReader.java:1224) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.AbstractMetaDataParser.processElements(AbstractMetaDataParser.java:64) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.InitMethodMetaDataParser.parse(InitMethodMetaDataParser.java:55) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.SessionBean30MetaDataParser.processElement(SessionBean30MetaDataParser.java:104) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.SessionBean31MetaDataParser.processElement(SessionBean31MetaDataParser.java:143) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.SessionBean32MetaDataParser.processElement(SessionBean32MetaDataParser.java:54) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.SessionBean32MetaDataParser.processElement(SessionBean32MetaDataParser.java:36) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.AbstractMetaDataParser.processElements(AbstractMetaDataParser.java:65) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.SessionBeanMetaDataParser.parse(SessionBeanMetaDataParser.java:81) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.EnterpriseBeansMetaDataParser.processElement(EnterpriseBeansMetaDataParser.java:87) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.EnterpriseBeansMetaDataParser.processElement(EnterpriseBeansMetaDataParser.java:39) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.AbstractMetaDataParser.processElements(AbstractMetaDataParser.java:65) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.EnterpriseBeansMetaDataParser.parse(EnterpriseBeansMetaDataParser.java:72) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.EnterpriseBeansMetaDataParser.parse(EnterpriseBeansMetaDataParser.java:65) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.AbstractEjbJarMetaDataParser.processElement(AbstractEjbJarMetaDataParser.java:98) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.AbstractEjbJarMetaDataParser.processElement(AbstractEjbJarMetaDataParser.java:43) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.AbstractMetaDataParser.processElements(AbstractMetaDataParser.java:65) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.EjbJarMetaDataParser.parseDocument(EjbJarMetaDataParser.java:101) at org.jboss.metadata.ejb.parser.spec.EjbJarMetaDataParser.parse(EjbJarMetaDataParser.java:51) at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.EjbJarParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.parseEjbJarXml(EjbJarParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.java:272) ... 10 more