Carlo Bonamico [https://community.jboss.org/people/carlo.bonamico] created the discussion "Is it possible to configure JAX-WS services with an external descriptor?" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/762155#762155 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I had to manage a situation similar to https://community.jboss.org/thread/146575 https://community.jboss.org/thread/146575 where a JBoss instance publishes a JaxWs service (annotated with @WebService) on plain http:// http:// on an internal network, and an external Apache httpd server with mod_proxy or mod_jk re-publishes the service over https:// https:// on the outside. The environment is JBoss-WS on JBoss AS 5.1.0. In order to be able to rewrite the soap:address field in the WSDL I successfully followed @asoldano advice: Then enabled rewriting of the address in jbossws.deployer/META-INF/jboss-beans.xml <bean name="ServiceEndpointManager" class="org.jboss.ws.server.ServiceEndpointManager">       <!--         The WSDL, that is a required deployment artifact for an endpoint, has a <soap:address>         element which points to the location of the endpoint. JBoss supports rewriting of that SOAP address.               If the content of <soap:address> is a valid URL, JBossWS will not rewrite it unless AlwaysModifySOAPAddress is true.         If the content of <soap:address> is not a valid URL, JBossWS will rewrite it using the attribute values given below.       -->       <property name="webServiceHost">www.external.domain.com</property>       <property name="webServiceSecurePort">443</property>       <property name="alwaysModifySOAPAddress">true</property>       ...     </bean> In this way the resulting url exposed in the wsdl is https://www.external.domain.com/path/ https://www.external.domain.com/path/... which is what I needed to achieve. However, apparently this only works for services which have an associated wsdl file provided by the developer (@WebService(wsdlLocation = "WEB-INF/...")) in the deployment. I would like to enable a similar behavior on services which have only the defining implementation class. Is it possible to associate to an @WebService class an external deployment descriptor which only specifies soap:address and/or other specific jaxws parameters, without having to explcitely create (and obviously maintain over time) the wsdlby hand? In general, I think that this scenario is not so uncommin, and it would be useful to have a parameter as suggested by @asoldano to simply enable rewriting of http:// into https:// -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/762155#762155] Start a new discussion in JBoss Web Services at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]