Problem Note 48379: The exception "Unexpected character E (code 69) in prolog" occurs when you deploy a web service on the IBM WebSphere Application Server
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When you use the Make Web Services deployment wizard to deploy a SAS® Stored Process as a web service, the following exception might occur:
com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Unexpected character 'E' (code 69) in prolog; expected '<'
at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1]
This exception can occur when WebSphere uses a jaxp.properties file to point to another XML parser. This file is located in the Websphere-home-directory/AppServer/java/jre/lib. directory. To resolve the problem, add the following classes to the jaxp.properties file:
- javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory=com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory
- javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory=com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxOutputFactory
- javax.xml.stream.XMLEventFactory=com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxEventFactory
The following snippet is an example of what the file looks like with the additional classes:
#
#javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=com.ibm.xtq.xslt.jaxp.compiler.TransformerFactoryImpl
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl
#javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory=org.apache.xpath.jaxp.XPathFactoryImpl
#javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
#javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
#javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory:http\://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory
#javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.datatype.DatatypeFactoryImpl
javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory=com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxInputFactory
javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory=com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxOutputFactory
javax.xml.stream.XMLEventFactory=com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxEventFactory
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | IBM WebSphere Application Server | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | ||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | ||||
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | ||||
| Windows Vista | ||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | ||||
| Linux | ||||
| Linux for x64 | ||||
| Solaris for x64 | ||||
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2012-11-05 14:23:16 |
| Date Created: | 2012-11-02 08:42:08 |