diff --git a/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/src/test/resources/org/apache/openjpa/persistence/embed/embed-orm.xml b/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/src/test/resources/org/apache/openjpa/persistence/embed/embed-orm.xml
index 80101f4eb..cd5657816 100644
--- a/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/src/test/resources/org/apache/openjpa/persistence/embed/embed-orm.xml
+++ b/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/src/test/resources/org/apache/openjpa/persistence/embed/embed-orm.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
@@ -16,7 +17,6 @@
  specific language governing permissions and limitations
  under the License.
 -->
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- AtestCatalog metadata in xml -->
 <entity-mappings xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"