I am using JBossAS 5.0.0.GA with JBossWS 3.0.4 and I am trying to publish an endpoint using | Endpoint publish(String address, Object implementor) | I supply the call with an instance of my endpoint class which is annotated with the appropriate WebService, SOAPBinding, WebMethod, etc annotations. During deployment of the endpoint I get a Class Cast Exception as follows | 11:40:51,731 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to PostClassLoader: name=/xtsservicetests1 state=ClassLoader mode=Manual requiredState=PostClassLoader | org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error during deploy: /xtsservicetests1 | at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:177) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1439) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1157) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1098) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1598) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1062) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:781) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.deploy(MainDeployerImpl.java:418) | at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.transport.EndpointAPIHttpTransportManager.deploy(EndpointAPIHttpTransportManager.java:169) | at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.transport.EndpointAPIHttpTransportManager.createListener(EndpointAPIHttpTransportManager.java:85) | at org.jboss.wsf.framework.deployment.HttpTransportDeploymentAspect.create(HttpTransportDeploymentAspect.java:76) | at org.jboss.wsf.framework.deployment.DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.create(DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.java:121) | at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.BareWSFRuntime.create(BareWSFRuntime.java:61) | at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.transport.WSFRuntimeDelegateHttpServer.publish(WSFRuntimeDelegateHttpServer.java:96) | at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.spi.EndpointImpl.publish(EndpointImpl.java:172) | at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.spi.EndpointImpl.publish(EndpointImpl.java:129) | at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.spi.ProviderImpl.createAndPublishEndpoint(ProviderImpl.java:83) | at javax.xml.ws.Endpoint.publish(Endpoint.java:184) | at org.jboss.jbossts.xts.servicetests.service.XTSServiceTestServiceManager.publish(XTSServiceTestServiceManager.java:19) | at org.jboss.jbossts.xts.servicetests.test.XTSPublishAndInvokeTest.run(XTSPublishAndInvokeTest.java:20) | at org.jboss.jbossts.xts.servicetests.bean.XTSServiceTestRunnerBean$1.run(XTSServiceTestRunnerBean.java:74) | Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.deployers.structure.spi.helpers.AbstractDeploymentUnit | at org.jboss.deployment.security.AbstractSecurityDeployer.deploy(AbstractSecurityDeployer.java:148) | at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171) | ... 25 more | The problem is that AbstractSecurityDeployer.deploy is invoked with an AbstractDeploymentUnit as argument. However, at line 148 it tries to cast its argument to a VFSDeploymentUnit. Any ideas why this is happening? Has anyone successfully managed to use Endpoint.publish previously? If so what did you do to avoid running up against this exception? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4200960#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...