I found that WebServiceRef is not supported in Jboss 4.2 web container even on this forum. If you search that annotation you can find many topics related. What do you mean by the class auto generated on the client side? When i create a web service client the only thing that is generate by the ide is a web service reference wsdl. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4158606#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...