EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) - Problemas de generación de EJB

hola

uso DeployTool (J2SDKEE 1.3),cuando intento hacer el deploy de la aplicación EAR aparece este mensaje de error (logs file, output file).

Logging for J2EE Server Version: 1.3-beta2-b35 started at: Fri Aug 31 09:54:50 CEST 2001..
Using the Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM and the version number 1.3.0 from Sun Microsystems Inc..
VM is using the classpath: C:\j2sdkee1.3\lib\system\cloudscape.jar;C:\j2sdkee1.3\lib\system\tools.jar;C:\j2sdkee1.3\lib\cloudscape\RmiJdbc.jar;C:\j2sdkee1.3\lib\cloudscape\client.jar;C:\j2sdkee1.3\lib\classes;C:\j2sdkee1.3\classes;C:\j2sdkee1.3\lib\j2ee.jar;C:\j2sdkee1.3\lib\locale;C:\jdk1.3\jre\lib\rt.jar;C:\jdk1.3\lib\tools.jar;.;C:\j2sdkee1.3\lib\jhall.jar .
J2EE Home Directory has been set to: C:\j2sdkee1.3.

Starting the server in a single VM mode.

com.sun.enterprise.deployment.xml.ParseException: org.apache.crimson.parser/P-076 Malformed UTF-8 char -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.xml.EjbBundleNode.readEjbBundleNodes(EjbBundleNode.java:702)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.xml.EjbBundleNode.read(EjbBundleNode.java:723)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.EjbBundleArchivist.open(EjbBundleArchivist.java:260)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.EjbBundleArchivist.open(EjbBundleArchivist.java:301)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.ApplicationArchivist.open(ApplicationArchivist.java:365)
at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.ApplicationArchivist.open(ApplicationArchivist.java:332)
at com.sun.enterprise.tools.deployment.backend.JarInstallerImpl.deployAppli