I had posted my first Q on http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=134614 instead of this location. Here's a copy: I am trying to take the simple echo example (http://jbws.dyndns.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=JBossWS_JAX-WS_Tools) to the next level and running into problem. I want to return a hashmap instead of the string. Instead of the client printing the hasmap contents it prints the address of the the hashmap. Here's the code: GetPM.java: ========= package getpm; import java.util.HashMap; @javax.jws.WebService public class GetPM { HashMap map = new HashMap(); public HashMap getPM() { map.put("key1", "value1"); map.put("key2", "value2"); map.put("key3", "value3"); System.out.println("From Server:" + map.toString()); return map; } } I am using the same web.xml as in the echo example -- is this were I am going wrong? web.xml ======= <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4"> <servlet-name>GetPM</servlet-name> <servlet-class>getpm.GetPM</servlet-class> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>GetPM</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/GetPM</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> I created the getpm.war file & deployed it on the jboss AS. Using wsconsume created the client files using the online version of service wsdl file: wsconsume -k http://localhost:8080/getpm/GetPM?wsdl The client then calls the service using the following GetPMclient.java: ============= import getpm.*; public class GetPMclient { public static void main(String args[]) { GetPMService service = new GetPMService(); GetPM pm = service.getGetPMPort(); System.out.println("Server said: " + pm.getPM()); //HashMap hm = (HashMap) pm.getPM(); //System.out.println(hm.toString()); } } On the server stdout I get the hashmap printed correctly, but on the client side instead of the hashmap I get the reference of the hashmap as below: getpm.HashMap@1a0b53e instead of {key1=value1, key2=value2, key3=value3} C:\....\webservices\getpm\client\output>wsrunclient GetPMclient log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Server said: getpm.HashMap@1a0b53e View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4147386#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...