"mikaeljl" wrote : | Afaik the postConstruct and predestroy annotations have not been supported on a pojo webservice before, when was this support added? | Since JBossWS 3.0.5 release. "mikaeljl" wrote : | Anyway, I can see that the constructor and the postCreate method is called once for each request. But I never see the preDestroy/finalizer being called. The only way getting a call to these methods is to redeploy the service. | Yes, the POJO endpoint is created for each request. It's not shared accross clients. We need to check JAXWS spec whether POJO endpoint ccould be shared. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204901#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...