Yes, I have the same issue as you mentioned below. As an alternative, I tried keeping the wsdl in WEB-INF and changed the wsdlLocation in endpoint interface and deployed the EAR. The below error I am getting.
Caused by: org.jboss.ws.WSException: Cannot build meta data: Could not find META-INF/wsdl/HelloWorld.wsdl in the additional metadatafiles!
at org.jboss.ws.WSException.rethrow(WSException.java:60)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.buildWebServiceMetaData(JAXWSWebServiceMetaDataBuilder.java:226)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSServerMetaDataBuilder.setupProviderOrWebService(JAXWSServerMetaDataBuilder.java:50)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.buildMetaData(JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.java:62)
at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.UnifiedMetaDataDeploymentAspect.start(UnifiedMetaDataDeploymentAspect.java:64)
at org.jboss.webservices.integration.deployers.WSDeploymentAspectDeployer.internalDeploy(WSDeploymentAspectDeployer.java:107)
at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)
Would be appreciated if any guidance on this issue?
Regards
Shashidhar Reddy