Hi! Thanks for your help. I'm sorry to say, that is not what I actually need or do. I want to have control over my contract (the WSDL-file). That is why I'm using contract first development. I have external parts using my services (contracts). Therefore generated contacts is not a good solution for me. But that is another topic. So, I have created the WSDL-file, and my own web service provider. I had to do this because I want to use xml beans as data binding framework. | @Stateless | @WebServiceProvider( | serviceName = "MyService", | portName = "MyServiceSoap11Port", | targetNamespace = "http://my.domain.com/my-service", | wsdlLocation = "WEB-INF/wsdl/my-service.wsdl") | @ServiceMode(value = Service.Mode.PAYLOAD) | public class MyServiceEndpointProvider implements Provider<Source> { | ... | } | So, what I want to do is to point out wsdlLocation="http://..." instead of wsdlLocation="WEB-INF/...". Why do I want to do this? Just because I see the contract as a complete separate part of the solution. My service (might be services) implements this contract. I might have several services that implements the same contract, but doing different things in different situations. So, my question still is: Is it a must to point out the wsdlLocation to a local path within the generated war. Best Oskar View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4030131#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...