There seems to be a regression, where schema validation fails as it is trying to use file: instead of vfs. When applications are not exploded it will fail with the error below because it is trying to access a file: that is not valid.

org.jboss.ws.WSException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'file:/home/bmaxwell/applications/servers/eap/jboss-eap-5.2.0/jboss-eap-5.2/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/schemaValidation.jar/META-INF/wsdl/example-1.0.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
at org.jboss.ws.WSException.rethrow(WSException.java:68)
at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPBodyElementDoc.validatePayload(SOAPBodyElementDoc.java:140)
at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPBodyElementDoc.transitionTo(SOAPBodyElementDoc.java:85)
at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPContentElement.getObjectValue(SOAPContentElement.java:172)
at org.jboss.ws.core.EndpointInvocation.transformPayloadValue(EndpointInvocation.java:273)
at org.jboss.ws.core.EndpointInvocation.getRequestParamValue(EndpointInvocation.java:115)
at org.jboss.ws.core.EndpointInvocation.getRequestPayload(EndpointInvocation.java:135)
at org.jboss.ws.core.server.DelegatingInvocation.getArgs(DelegatingInvocation.java:80)
at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.invocation.InvocationHandlerEJB3.invoke(InvocationHandlerEJB3.java:97)
at org.jboss.ws.core.server.ServiceEndpointInvoker.invoke(ServiceEndpointInvoker.java:241)
at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.processRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:470)
at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.handleRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:294)
at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.doPost(RequestHandlerImpl.java:203)
at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.handleHttpRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:129)
at org.jboss.wsf.common.servlet.AbstractEndpointServlet.service(AbstractEndpointServlet.java:85)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:183)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:95)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.request.ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.internalProcess(ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.java:74)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.request.ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.invoke(ActiveRequestResponseCacheValve.java:47)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:829)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:599)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:451)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'file:/home/bmaxwell/applications/servers/eap/jboss-eap-5.2.0/jboss-eap-5.2/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/schemaValidation.jar/META-INF/wsdl/pa-status-wrapper-1.0.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.reportSchemaError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.getSchemaDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.parseSchema(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadSchema(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory.newSchema(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:594)
at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:610)
at org.jboss.ws.extensions.validation.SchemaValidationHelper.<init>(SchemaValidationHelper.java:67)
at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPBodyElementDoc.validatePayload(SOAPBodyElementDoc.java:125)
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