3Ch is the character "<", which cannot appear literally in an XML document.
You do have an "illegal character". Nor is a ">" a legal character, or a
number of other ones. Check the XML specification at www.w3c.org.
Gerald.
At 06:22 PM 10/24/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I followed the orion primer and created the session bean, the descriptors
>and the client servlet. I verified, that everything is correct, but when I
>start up orion I get the following error:
>
>C:\orion>java -jar orion.jar
>Error instantiating application at
>file:/C:/orion/applications/orion-primer.ear:
>Error parsing META-INF/application.xml in
>C:\orion\applications\orion-primer: Fatal error at line 4: Illegal character
>at end of document, <.
>
>Orion/1.3.8 initialized
>
>I checked the application.xml file, and I found no "illegal characters"....
>
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>
>Martin Lilienthal
