A thought on where in the ESB Message should the SOAP stuff go... I think the raw XML as a string should go into message.getBody().add(soap_message); This is the "default location" which might be interesting to the action chain/pipeline. The marshaled request & response should be at message.getBody().add(SOAP_REQUEST,request); and message.getBody().add(SOAP_RESPONSE,response); respectively where SOAP_REQUEST is specified in the jboss-esb.properties file It is very likely that the user will take the POJOs and map them into jBPM or Drools using the techniques shown in quickstart bpm_orchestration4 By "marshaled", I mean the POJO (not XML) of the request & response objects. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4154130#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...