[jboss-user] deployed web service consumer?

I have deployed apps in jboss, and I like how clean they are-everything in one place. But now I need my apps to consume external web services. I don't want to write a bunch of external apps in SE and have to worry about packaging them with the JBoss JARs, not to mention the overhead and complexity of introducing things like JCA into things. I'm really surprised a definitive answer isn't forthcoming when searched for. Can I write code into my beans that will go out and consume web services? Thanks! pat :) "You see, the Boyz II Men's room is flooded. 'Cause Busta Rhymes went in to take a Master P but he got the Runs D.M.C. and had some Heavy D. And now there's Funky Cold Medina everywhere!" -Thurgood Stubbs