Module name contains invalid characters, or empty segments (JBoss 7, EAP 6)

gistfile1.txt

I encountered this when deploying an ear file into JBoss 7.1 (EAP 6.1.1). 

Googling revealed no concrete answers, so hopefully this help someone else.  
The ear file is built with Maven and notably specifies several manifest entries. 
A carriage return in the Dependencies element of the maven pom caused this problem. 

The Eclipse code formatter reformatted the code and wrapped the line.  
Ensuring the manifest entry is on one line will resolve this problem.



<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
				<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
				<configuration>
					<generateApplicationXml>true</generateApplicationXml>
					<defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
					<filtering>true</filtering>
					<applicationName>${project.parent.artifactId}</applicationName>
					<finalName>appservice-${project.parent.version}</finalName>
					<archive>
						<manifestEntries>
<!-- The dependencies line must be on 1 single line, no wrapping no carriage return. Exercise caution with automatic IDE code formatters! -->
                                            <Dependencies>${project.ear.Dependencies},com.abc.api:${version.abc.api},com.xyz.api  export,com.efg.api export</Dependencies>
						</manifestEntries>
					</archive>
					<modules>
						<ejbModule>
							<groupId>${project.parent.groupId}</groupId>
							<artifactId>app-service-engine</artifactId>
						</ejbModule>
					</modules>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>