Cannot start TIBCO JasperReports® Server 6.3.0 on JBoss WildFly; ParseError in the logs

2016-08-08 14:02:19,800 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC
service thread 1-2) () MSC000001: Failed to start service
jboss.deployment.unit."jasperserver-pro.war".PARSE:
org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service
jboss.deployment.unit."jasperserver-pro.war".PARSE: JBAS018733: Failed
to process phase PARSE of deployment "jasperserver-pro.war" at
org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:166)
[wildfly-server-8.1.0.Final.jar:8.1.0.Final] at
org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1948)
[jboss-msc-1.2.2.Final.jar:1.2.2.Final] at
org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1881)
[jboss-msc-1.2.2.Final.jar:1.2.2.Final] at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
[rt.jar:1.8.0_101] at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
[rt.jar:1.8.0_101] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
[rt.jar:1.8.0_101] Caused by:
org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException:
JBAS011666: Could not parse file
/usr/local/wildfly-8.1.0.Final/standalone/deployments/jasperserver-pro.war/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jms.xml at
org.jboss.as.messaging.deployment.MessagingXmlParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.deploy(MessagingXmlParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.java:99) at
org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:159)
[wildfly-server-8.1.0.Final.jar:8.1.0.Final] ... 5 more Caused by:
org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException:
JBAS011666: Could not parse file
/usr/local/wildfly-8.1.0.Final/standalone/deployments/jasperserver-pro.war/WEB-INF/applicationContext-jms.xml at
org.jboss.as.messaging.deployment.MessagingXmlParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.deploy(MessagingXmlParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.java:96)
... 6 more Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[2,1] Message: Unexpected element
'{http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans}beans' at
org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.processNested(XMLMapperImpl.java:108) at
org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.parseDocument(XMLMapperImpl.java:69) at
org.jboss.as.messaging.deployment.MessagingXmlParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.deploy(MessagingXmlParsingDeploymentUnitProcessor.java:90)
... 6 more

Cause

This error message is somewhat rare, and it is related specifically to JMS listener on specific versions of JBoss and Spring. Here are some related threads on this issue if you want look into more details on this:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15367623/jboss-7-could-not-parse-file-meta-inf-hornetq-jms-xml 
• https://developer.jboss.org/thread/198358?tstart=0 
• https://developer.jboss.org/thread/222475

Resolution

One of the simplest solutions is to rename the /WEB-INF/applicationContext-jms.xml file so that it doesn't end with "-jms.xml", because that is what JBoss attempts to parse. Use the following steps:

Ref. case #00070541