I checked up on Sun's online documentation for Metro and it confirms that PostCreate and PreDestroy annotated methodsof a WebService are supposed to be invoked by JaxWS. See: | https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/jax-ws-ea3/docs/annotations.html | The JaxWS 2.0 and 2.1 spec both refer to JSR 109 in section 11 when discussing the deployment model for @WebService annotated classes. So, I'm going to raise a JIRA against JBossWS Native for not honouring these annotations. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4167263#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...