For Glassfish JAXWS 2.1 it seems that the annotations @Stateful and @Addressing are supported so you basically annotate your web service with @Stateful @Addressing @Webservice along with a reference to a StatefulWebServiceManager JBoss guys, would you say upcoming or existing JAXWS compliant JBossWS runtimes would support the @Stateful and @Addressing annotations? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012566#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...