Thanks for your help! Norm The class is: ======== import java.util.Date; /** * * @author dakk */ public class DataRecord implements java.io.Serializable { public String fileName; public byte[] photo; //as an array of base64-encoded bytes public Float salary; public Float d2; public Float d3; public Float d4; public Date date; public Integer empID; public Float d5; public DataRecord() {} public String toString() { return "Data Record Filename="+this.fileName; } } Here is the run: =================================== init: deps-jar: compile-single: run-single: Contacting webservice at http://localhost:8080/myservlet/MyServletInterface?wsdl Exception in thread "main" deserialization error: unexpected XML reader state. expected: END but found: START: date at com.sun.xml.rpc.encoding.literal.LiteralResponseSerializer.deserialize(LiteralResponseSerializer.java:331) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvokerImpl._readFirstBodyElement(CallInvokerImpl.java:350) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.StreamingSender._send(StreamingSender.java:228) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvokerImpl.doInvoke(CallInvokerImpl.java:103) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.BasicCall.invoke(BasicCall.java:486) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvocationHandler.doCall(CallInvocationHandler.java:121) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvocationHandler.invoke(CallInvocationHandler.java:85) at $Proxy0.getDataRecord(Unknown Source) at MyClient.main(MyClient.java:48) CAUSE: unexpected XML reader state. expected: END but found: START: date at com.sun.xml.rpc.streaming.XMLReaderUtil.verifyReaderState(XMLReaderUtil.java:51) at com.sun.xml.rpc.encoding.literal.LiteralResponseSerializer.internalDeserialize(LiteralResponseSerializer.java:373) at com.sun.xml.rpc.encoding.literal.LiteralResponseSerializer.deserialize(LiteralResponseSerializer.java:327) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvokerImpl._readFirstBodyElement(CallInvokerImpl.java:350) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.StreamingSender._send(StreamingSender.java:228) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvokerImpl.doInvoke(CallInvokerImpl.java:103) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.BasicCall.invoke(BasicCall.java:486) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvocationHandler.doCall(CallInvocationHandler.java:121) at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvocationHandler.invoke(CallInvocationHandler.java:85) at $Proxy0.getDataRecord(Unknown Source) at MyClient.main(MyClient.java:48) Java Result: 1 BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 17 seconds) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4166755#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...