Rohr Heiko [http://community.jboss.org/people/deberlin] replied to the discussion "problem running jboss 4.0.2 compilent ws in jboss 5.0" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/540348#540348 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, the same problem occur still under jbossws-native-3.2.2.GA.zip and JBoss 5.1.0 GA. The JBossWS documentation  write: With document style web services the payload of every message is defined by a complex type in XML schema. At the moment, it is not possible to deploy a JAX-RPC Service with the following wsdl configuration for the response message: WSDL declaration: ... <wsdl:message name="getIn">         <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="ret:REQUEST" />     </wsdl:message>     <wsdl:message name="getOut">         <wsdl:part name="*result*" element="ret:RESPONSE" />     </wsdl:message> ... XSD declaration: ... <xsd:element name="RESPONSE" type="ret:RESPONSE_TYPE"/>     <xsd:complexType name="RESPONSE_TYPE">         <xsd:sequence>             <xsd:element name="res_1" type="xsd:string"/>             <xsd:element name="res_2" type="xsd:string"/>         </xsd:sequence>     </xsd:complexType> ... The Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not determine variable name for element: *result* org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxrpc.JAXRPCMetaDataBuilder.processOutputDocElement(JAXRPCMetaDataBuilder.java:805) occur. Any ideas? Best redards!!! -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/540348#540348] Start a new discussion in JBoss Web Services at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]