Thank you Peter for the information. I have been thinking that perhaps it would be better for me to use JBoss 6 since it provides a better method validating SOAP messages amongst other things. In general, do you think AS 6 would be a better platform for developing Web Services? If I do go with 6.0 will the same examples you provided work? I am back to work tomorrow so I will try using the example you provided to develop a base Web Service that I can successfully call from a Java client program (as shown in the example). If I have any more troubles, I would very much appreciate your continued help until I can just get a working service... from there I can add all the functionality needed quite easily. Once again, thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.