// on the J2ee management object
specDD = DeploymentUtil.readAll(specDDUrl);
// parse it
XmlObject xmlObject = SchemaConversionUtils.parse(specDD);
ApplicationClientDocument appClientDoc = SchemaConversionUtils.convertToApplicationClientSchema(xmlObject);
appClient = appClientDoc.getApplicationClient();
} catch (XmlException e) {
throw new DeploymentException("Unable to parse application-client.xml", e);
} catch (Exception e) {
return null;
}