RichFaces+JSF: declaracao xmlns com problemas?

Pessoal, estou fazendo um pagina web usando jsp+jsf+richfaces

Se eu colocar deste modo nas declaracoes das taglibs, funciona!!

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"  pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f"  %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"  %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/a4j" prefix="a4j"  %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/rich" prefix="rich" %>

mas deste modo nao

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<jsp:root version="1.2" 
	xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
	xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
	xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
	xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
	xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
	xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">

ocorre um erro de conexao ou leitura do jsp… nao sei qual dos dois realmente. mas erro do jsp nao acredito que seja…

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Error reading file “/indexjax.jsp”
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:51)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:409)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:281)

root cause
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: connect
java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)

Estou utilizando o servidor jboss-4.2.2.GA

Alguem sabe o que pode estar acontecendo?

Valeu…