SAXException while parsing web.xml file in jboss 5.0 during deployment

[Eshwar Prasad]

while i deployed myapp.war in deploy folder of jboss 5.0 i get the following error in console.

vfsfile:/D:/jboss-5.0.0/server/default/deploy/myapp.war/ -> org.xml.sax.S
AXException: The content of element type "web-app" must match "(icon?,display-na
me?,description?,distributable?,context-param*,filter*,filter-mapping*,listener*
,servlet*,servlet-mapping*,session-config?,mime-mapping*,welcome-file-list?,erro
r-page*,taglib*,resource-env-ref*,resource-ref*,security-constraint*,login-confi
g?,security-role*,env-entry*,ejb-ref*,ejb-local-ref*)". @ vfsfile:/D:/jboss-5.0.
0/server/default/deploy/myapp.war/WEB-INF/web.xml[28,11]

My web.xml file has below content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
  <display-name>Welcome to JBoss</display-name>
  <description>
     Welcome to JBoss
  </description>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Status Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.StatusServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Status Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/status</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
   <servlet>
    <servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.app.HelloWorld</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/HelloWorld</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Please let me know what i can do further to resolve and have error free deployment

Thanks

[Jaikiran Pai]

The error message tells you the exact order which is required in the xml. The xml that you posted that the servlet-mapping is being used before the servlet element. Change the xml to bring down all the servlet-mapping elements after the servlet declarations.

[Eshwar Prasad]

Thanks problem resolved

[Ciro Arreola]

Jaikiran Pai wrote: the exact order which is required in the xml

That helped me too! thanks!