Yes... the problem is that currently the deployment is recognized as a WS one after the classloading phase (in real phase) as in most cases the only way of doing that is finding jaxws annotations on the endpoint.
What about if you search for this Spring WS config file?
Is the shared annotation repository (which we don't use yet, we have a jira for that) also populated after the classloader for the deployment unit is setup, isn't it?
Yes.