The contents of the EntityMap attribute is expected to be in java.util.Properties format, so the whitespace in the key needs to be escaped. This is the complete service.xml file that works. | <server> | <mbean code="org.jboss.services.xml.JBossEntityResolverMgr" name="jboss.xml:service=JBossEntityResolverMgr"> | <attribute name="WarnOnNonFileURLs">true</attribute> | <attribute name="EntityMap"> | -//SPRING//DTD\ BEAN//EN=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans.dtd | </attribute> | </mbean> | </server> | Thanks to David Boeren from JBoss for finding the solution to this problem. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3974832#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...