ok so i discovered a couple of facts... 1. when the unit test worked I had the Service locator using a local version of the WSDL (c:\foo\bar\myservice.wsdl)... I had changed this to the wsdl from the live running instance when I waned to deploy the client as a library jar in the ESB Action.. This WSDL produced on the fly by JBossWS came out different than the original that the Service and Clients we based on (top down service and client generation).. Needless to say the client didn't match this (I kept getting a service not found as the namespace and service names didn't match)..
I tried to change the Service's annotation to include a WSDL location for the original WSDL file.. The service then failed to start (giving the same error about the namespace and service names not matching)..
So at this point I'm not sure what exactly I did wrong.. I used JBossWS to generate the Service from the WSDL file.. I then used JBossWS to produce the client from the same exact WSDL file.. Having the client point to the file on disk seemed to work ok.. But this only worked with absolute path.. not sure how to get it to work with relative paths within the JAR file.. Suggestions?
thanks!
Gary