Thanks for the quick reply Kurt. It is about access to the native COM itself (which , as you must be aware, has it's own binary protocol). We have this library using which we can access the COM servers directly from Java. I am not sure where SOAP comes in. Kindly correct me if I have misundertsood your question...we intend to do something on the lines of DCOM BC for OpenESB http://wiki.open-esb.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=DCOMBC. Thanks again, best regards, Dirk View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129775#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...