This was indeed a missing jars in classpath problem. I had to add following to the classpath: | $ echo $CLASSPATH | jboss_libs/jboss-common-core.jar:jboss_libs/jbossall-client.jar:jboss_libs/jbossws-spi.jar:jboss_libs/jbossws-native-core.jar:jboss_libs/jbossws-native-client.jar::jboss_libs/jaxb-impl.jar:jboss_libs/jboss-xml-binding.jar:jboss_libs/stax-api.jar:jboss_libs/wstx.jar:jboss_libs/jboss-logging-jdk.jar:jboss_libs/jboss-logging-spi.jar:jboss_libs/jbossws-common.jar:jboss_libs/wsdl4j.jar:jboss_libs/mail.jar:jboss_libs/policy.jar:jboss_libs/commons-logging.jar:jboss_libs/javassist.jar:jboss_libs/jboss-remoting.jar | All these libs were from jboss/client But after the client started working, I had following exception in server.log. | 3:29:21,925 ERROR [[HelloBean]] Servlet.service() for servlet HelloBean threw exception | java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: setProperty must be overridden by all subclasses of SOAPMessage | at javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage.setProperty(SOAPMessage.java:441) | at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPMessageImpl.<init>(SOAPMessageImpl.java:87) | at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.MessageFactoryImpl.createMessage(MessageFactoryImpl.java:169) | at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS.createSOAPMessage(SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS.java:295) | at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS.toSOAPMessage(SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS.java:256) | at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS.exceptionToFaultMessage(SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS.java:187) | at org.jboss.ws.core.jaxws.binding.SOAP11BindingJAXWS.createFaultMessageFromException(SOAP11BindingJAXWS.java:102) | at org.jboss.ws.core.CommonSOAPBinding.bindFaultMessage(CommonSOAPBinding.java:671) | at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.processRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:496) | at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.handleRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:295) | at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.doPost(RequestHandlerImpl.java:205) | at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.handleHttpRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:131) | at org.jboss.wsf.common.servlet.AbstractEndpointServlet.service(AbstractEndpointServlet.java:85) | at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) | at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) | at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) | at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) | at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:235) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:190) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:92) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) | at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) | at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330) | at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:829) | at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:598) | at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) | | On client side it looks like following: | $ wsrunclient.sh -cp "dist/hello-client.jar:jboss-generated:lib:$CLASSPATH" com.hardik.mejb.JAXWSClient | http://localhost:8080/hello-ws-hello-ws/HelloBean?WSDL | [Fatal Error] :-1:-1: Premature end of file. | 2: null | I installed JBOSS from jboss-5.1.0.GA-jdk6.zip file. thanks & regards. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4240300#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...