.i guess i got it to work halfway with the stupid ear’s
Orion only support EAR deployment.
The xmlns problem is likely that you’ve created a J2EE 1.4 project, with associated schema-based descriptors, and Orion 2 is only a J2EE 1.3-capable container. Recreating your projects as J2EE 1.3 projects and migrating your code to them should resolve the error.