Weblogic Deployment Fails with VALIDATION PROBLEMS WERE FOUND and 'Attribute not allowed (no wildcards allowed)' in OFSAA (Doc ID 2687178.1)

Last updated on APRIL 21, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

After adding the weblogic.xml to /<Weblogic Home>/domains/<domain>/applications/<app>.war/<app>.ear/WEB-INF and adding "session" parameters as described in the OFSAA Security Guide under "Configure Security for Weblogic", you are unable to deploy. You get the error below:

####<Jun 26, 2020 7:32:55 PM IST> <Error> <Console> <> <> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <weblogic> <> <> <1593180175190> <BEA-240003> <Administration Console encountered the following error: weblogic.application.ModuleException: [HTTP:101064][WebAppModule(<app>:/<apps>)] Error parsing descriptor in Web appplication "/<Weblogic Home>/user_projects/domains/<domain>/servers/<server>/stage/<app>/<app>.ear/<app>.war"
weblogic.application.ModuleException: VALIDATION PROBLEMS WERE FOUND
<2:3> problem: cvc-complex-type.3.2.1: Attribute not allowed (no wildcards allowed): schemaLocation@https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance in element weblogic-web-app@http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app
       at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.loadDescriptor(WebAppModule.java:1467)
       at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.init(WebAppModule.java:245)
       at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.init(WebAppModule.java:682)
       at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.init(ScopedModuleDriver.java:162)
       at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper.init(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:98)
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Caused by: weblogic.descriptor.DescriptorException: VALIDATION PROBLEMS WERE FOUND

As a result of this error, you cannot start or use this OFSAA environment.

Cause

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