Andrew Rubinger [http://community.jboss.org/people/ALRubinger] replied to the discussion "Hiding the True Error" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/541667#541667 -------------------------------------------------------------- In my case above, I was able to isolate the real error by including the schema declaration in my jboss-beans.xml.  Real error was againcoming from XB: Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXException: cvc-complex-type.3.2.2: Attribute 'name' is not allowed to appear in element 'parameter'. @ vfs:///home/alr/business/jboss/wc/jbossas/projects/ejb3/components/embedded/trunk/impl-as/target/classes/embedded-ejb-as-adaptor-jboss-beans.xml[14,32] I'd gotten the bad config from: http://docs.jboss.org/jbossmc/docs/2.0.x/userGuide/ch11s05.html http://docs.jboss.org/jbossmc/docs/2.0.x/userGuide/ch11s05.html So a couple questions: 1) Can we open an issue, or does one exist, to fix the "hiding the cause" behaviour? 2) Is that the most updated documentation? S, ALR -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/541667#541667] Start a new discussion in JBoss Microcontainer at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]