thought i'd have one last go downloaded jboss As5b4. configured eclipse 3.3 with default 5.0 server (basic one) deployed ejb3 webservice as ejb file to server and checked wsdl generated. used wsconsume to gen client artifacts and imported into standalone application client project. All compiles. client looks like this - cant get much easier | | package test; | | import java.util.Hashtable; | | import javax.naming.InitialContext; | | import org.wstest.webservices.*; | | public class Test { | | /** | * @param args | */ | public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception | { | | InitialContext ctx; | // TODO Auto-generated method stub | | | HelloService s = new HelloService(); | HelloServiceWS ws = s.getHelloServiceWSPort(); | | | | String res = ws.sayHello(); | System.out.println ("test: returned " + res + " \n"); | | } | generated wsdl at server looks like | | - <definitions name="HelloService" targetNamespace="http://webservices.wstest.org/" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:tns="http://webservices.wstest.org/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> | - <types> | - <xs:schema targetNamespace="http://webservices.wstest.org/" version="1.0" xmlns:tns="http://webservices.wstest.org/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> | <xs:element name="sayHello" type="tns:sayHello" /> | <xs:element name="sayHelloResponse" type="tns:sayHelloResponse" /> | - <xs:complexType name="sayHello"> | <xs:sequence /> | </xs:complexType> | - <xs:complexType name="sayHelloResponse"> | - <xs:sequence> | <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="helloResult" type="xs:string" /> | </xs:sequence> | </xs:complexType> | </xs:schema> | </types> | - <message name="HelloServiceWS_sayHello"> | <part element="tns:sayHello" name="sayHello" /> | </message> | - <message name="HelloServiceWS_sayHelloResponse"> | <part element="tns:sayHelloResponse" name="sayHelloResponse" /> | </message> | - <portType name="HelloServiceWS"> | - <operation name="sayHello" parameterOrder="sayHello"> | <input message="tns:HelloServiceWS_sayHello" /> | <output message="tns:HelloServiceWS_sayHelloResponse" /> | </operation> | </portType> | - <binding name="HelloServiceWSBinding" type="tns:HelloServiceWS"> | <soap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" /> | - <operation name="sayHello"> | <soap:operation soapAction="" /> | - <input> | <soap:body use="literal" /> | </input> | - <output> | <soap:body use="literal" /> | </output> | </operation> | </binding> | - <service name="HelloService"> | - <port binding="tns:HelloServiceWSBinding" name="HelloServiceWSPort"> | <soap:address location="http://127.0.0.1:8080/wstest-ejb/HelloService" /> | </port> | </service> | </definitions> | run the test and get | Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Unable to load Provider: Failed to load javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider: com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl | at javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider.provider(Provider.java:90) | at javax.xml.ws.Service.<init>(Service.java:82) | at org.wstest.webservices.HelloService.<init>(HelloService.java:40) | at test.Test.main(Test.java:21) | Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider: com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl | at javax.xml.ws.spi.ProviderLoader.loadProvider(ProviderLoader.java:96) | at javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider.provider(Provider.java:82) | ... 3 more | Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError | at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) | at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) | at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494) | at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350) | at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303) | at javax.xml.ws.spi.ProviderLoader.loadProvider(ProviderLoader.java:91) | ... 4 more | Caused by: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Error creating JAXBContext for W3CEndpointReference. | at com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl.getEPRJaxbContext(ProviderImpl.java:188) | at com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl.<clinit>(ProviderImpl.java:65) | ... 11 more | Caused by: com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException: 2 counts of IllegalAnnotationExceptions | Two classes have the same XML type name "address". Use @XmlType.name and @XmlType.namespace to assign different names to them. | this problem is related to the following location: | at com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference$Address | at public com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference$Address com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference.addr | at com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference | this problem is related to the following location: | at javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference$Address | at private javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference$Address javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference.address | at javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference | Two classes have the same XML type name "elements". Use @XmlType.name and @XmlType.namespace to assign different names to them. | this problem is related to the following location: | at com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference$Elements | at public com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference$Elements com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference.referenceProperties | at com.sun.xml.ws.developer.MemberSubmissionEndpointReference | this problem is related to the following location: | at javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference$Elements | at private javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference$Elements javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference.referenceParameters | at javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference | | at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.IllegalAnnotationsException$Builder.check(IllegalAnnotationsException.java:102) | at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getTypeInfoSet(JAXBContextImpl.java:438) | at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.<init>(JAXBContextImpl.java:286) | at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:139) | at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:117) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) | at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:211) | at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:372) | at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:574) | at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:522) | at com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl.getEPRJaxbContext(ProviderImpl.java:186) | ... 12 more | please help i really want this to work so i can get back to my business problem - and not spend time trashing in frameworks. doesnt work on 4.2.2 either View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4140760#... 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