The Microcontainer XML tests are failing in JBoss4 because of the Xerces bug in the annotation parsing.

e.g.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.lang.System.arraycopy(Native Method)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XSModelImpl.getAnnotations(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.unmarshalling.XsdBinder.bind(XsdBinder.java:80)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.deployment.xml.BeanSchemaBinding.readXsd(BeanSchemaBinding.java:937)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.deployment.xml.BeanSchemaBinding.getSchemaBinding(BeanSchemaBinding.java:211)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.deployment.xml.BeanXMLDeployer.<init>(BeanXMLDeployer.java:34)
at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.support.XMLUtil.<init>(XMLUtil.java:51)
at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.test.AbstractKernelConfigTest.bootstrapXML(AbstractKernelConfigTest.java:54)
at org.jboss.test.kernel.config.test.InstantiateXMLTestCase.testConstructorDoesNotExist(InstantiateXMLTestCase.java:99)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:474)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:342)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:194)