beans.xml with comment only fails the deploy

I have create a jar file with a /META-INF/beans.xml file in it. When the file is empty -> deploy OK When the file contains only comments <!-- empty beans xml --> Caused by: org.jboss.weld.exceptions.IllegalStateException: WELD-001202 : Error parsing vfs:/content/service.war/WEB-INF/lib/rudy-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar/META-INF/beans.xml Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; Premature end of file."},"WFLYCTL0412: Required services that are not installed:" => ["jboss.deployment.unit.\"service.war\".PARSE"] ,"WFLYCTL0180: Services with missing/unavailable dependencies" => undefined} With it contains also a valid root element -> deploy OK. <!-- empty beans xml --> <beans/>