I read in several places that org.w3c.dom.Element gets mapped to anyType and can be used in Document/Literal endpoints. However, I cannot seem to get a simply test endpoint (using JSR-181 EJB) to work. Using JBoss 4.0.5.GA w/ JBossWS 1.0.4.GA | @EJB(name="PingBuildLinksEndPointBean", beanInterface=IPingBuildLinksEndPointBean.class, description="This is the ping description", beanName="PingBuildLinksEndPointBean") | @WebService(name="PingBuildLinksEndPoint") | @SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT, use=SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL) | @PortComponent(authMethod="BASIC", urlPattern="/test.ws",transportGuarantee="CONFIDENTIAL") | @RolesAllowed("BLDADM") | @SecurityDomain("BuildLinksWs") | | /** | * @author cboatwright | */ | public @Stateless class PingBuildLinksEndPointBean extends AbstractDatabaseSessionEndPoint | implements IPingBuildLinksEndPointBean | { | public PingBuildLinksEndPointBean() | throws CreateException, BuildLinksException | { | super(); | } | | @WebMethod | public Element elementPing(String arg0) | throws BuildLinksFault | { | Element rv = null; | | log.debug("ignored arg0=" + arg0); | | try | { | rv = DOMUtils.parse("<helloWorld/>"); | } | catch (IOException e) | { | throw new BuildLinksFault(e.getMessage()); | } | | return rv; | } | I get the following exception (regardless of the length of the XML returned, the above example just has one node): | 23:58:03,035 ERROR [[PingBuildLinksEndPointBean]] Servlet.service() for servlet PingBuildLinksEndPointBean threw exception | org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBRuntimeException: Failed to find read method or field for property '_value' in class org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredElementNSImpl | at org.jboss.xb.binding.introspection.ClassInfo.getFieldInfo(ClassInfo.java:81) | at org.jboss.xb.binding.introspection.FieldInfo.getFieldInfo(FieldInfo.java:155) | at org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.marshalling.MarshallerImpl.getJavaValue(MarshallerImpl.java:1266) | at org.jboss.xb.binding.sunday.marshalling.MarshallerImpl.getElementValue(MarshallerImpl.java:1284) | .. cut | Any advice on how to send back the result as a well-formed XML element? When I try just to do it as a string, all of the XML reserved characters get escaped ... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3990865#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...