I have tried two Macs, one running Java 1.4.2 and one running Java 1.5.0 and both had the same error. The installation is the bundled jboss portal 2.4.0 and jboss AS 4.0.4 which is pretty simple to get running on fedora core 5. I would like to get it working on Mac OS X so I am open to suggestions. The error message itself appears wrong java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mixed content now allowed should probably be java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mixed content not allowed I looked up the source of the exception in the source code for XML.java (see below) but that hasn't helped me solve the problem. Regards Tim /** | * Get the element's content as a string. | * | * @param element the container | * @param trim true if text should be trimmed before returning result | * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the element content is mixed or null | */ | public static String asString(Element element, boolean trim) throws IllegalArgumentException | { | if (element == null) | { | throw new IllegalArgumentException("No null element allowed"); | } | | // | StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); | NodeList children = element.getChildNodes(); | for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) | { | Node child = children.item(i); | switch (child.getNodeType()) | { | case Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE: | case Node.TEXT_NODE: | buffer.append(((Text)child).getData()); | break; | case Node.ELEMENT_NODE: | throw new IllegalArgumentException("Mixed content now allowed"); | default: | break; | } | } | String result = buffer.toString(); | if (trim) | { | result = result.trim(); | } | return result; | } | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972448#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...