"longbeach" wrote : here is the complete stack trace : | | 07:15:07,378 INFO [ActionValidatorManagerFactory] Detected AnnotationActionValidatorManager, initializing it... | 07:15:13,239 ERROR [[default]] Servlet.service() for servlet default threw exception | java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI scheme is not "file" | at java.io.File.(Unknown Source) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.ValidatorFactory.parseValidators(ValidatorFactory.java:323) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.ValidatorFactory.(ValidatorFactory.java:230) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.ValidatorFileParser.addValidatorConfigs(ValidatorFileParser.java:192) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.ValidatorFileParser.parseActionValidatorConfigs(ValidatorFileParser.java:72) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.AnnotationActionValidatorManager.loadFile(AnnotationActionValidatorManager.java:361) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.AnnotationActionValidatorManager.buildClassValidatorConfigs(AnnotationActionValidatorManager.java:252) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.AnnotationActionValidatorManager.buildValidatorConfigs(AnnotationActionValidatorManager.java:340) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.AnnotationActionValidatorManager.getValidators(AnnotationActionValidatorManager.java:69) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.AnnotationActionValidatorManager.validate(AnnotationActionValidatorManager.java:138) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.AnnotationActionValidatorManager.validate(AnnotationActionValidatorManager.java:113) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.AnnotationActionValidatorManager.validate(AnnotationActionValidatorManager.java:100) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.ValidationInterceptor.doBeforeInvocation(ValidationInterceptor.java:142) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.ValidationInterceptor.doIntercept(ValidationInterceptor.java:148) | at org.apache.struts2.interceptor.validation.AnnotationValidationInterceptor.doIntercept(AnnotationValidationInterceptor.java:48) | at com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.MethodFilterInterceptor.intercept(MethodFilterInterceptor.java:86) | at Based on this stacktrace, all that i can "guess" is that the com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.ValidatorFactory.parseValidators expects a URI to be of the form file://something and because of the VFS related changes to JBoss-5, the URI being passed is probably vfsfile://something which only JBoss recognizes and no one else. That might be why you are running into this error. You might want to open a new thread with these details (you can even point to this thread) in the JBoss AS5 forum http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=287 where you might get some advice. While posting the logs or xml content or code, remember to wrap it in a code block using the Code button in the message editor window and please hit the Preview button to make sure your post is correctly formatted View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4174817#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...