The LiteralTypeMapping is constructed like this | public LiteralTypeMapping() | { | // XOP default mapping | JBossXBSerializerFactory jbxbSF = new JBossXBSerializerFactory(); | JBossXBDeserializerFactory jbxbDF = new JBossXBDeserializerFactory(); | | ... | | registerStandardLiteralTypes(); | | ... | | // register mapping for xsd:anyType | register(SOAPElement.class, Constants.TYPE_LITERAL_ANYTYPE, new SOAPElementSerializerFactory(), new SOAPElementDeserializerFactory()); | register(Element.class, Constants.TYPE_LITERAL_ANYTYPE, new ElementSerializerFactory(), new ElementDeserializerFactory()); | } | Unfortunatly, it is not commented why xsd:antType is not considered as a standard literal type. Maybe only only because it is not by the spec. I hesitate to have this changed since in favour of rpc/encoded because it might break anyType handling for literal users. However, lets have a jira for it http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBWS-1595 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4033017#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...