I discovered some interesting behavior. I created a stateless session bean (SLSB) with a @WebService annotation. I added an @WebMethod annotation to a method within my SLSB that returns an Entity Bean. JBoss 4.2.0CR2 then freezes up during startup when it tries to create the SLSB wsdl file. I assume that web service methods should only return Strings, Booleans, etc., but the Jboss behavior is not ideal. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4041157#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...