Here are some more information: when the web application starts up the web application context is started as shown in the stack trace below: [[/CredentialService]] Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext [ContextLoader] Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started .................... [XmlWebApplicationContext] Bean factory for application context [org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@f582e9]: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@b9915a ....... [DefaultListableBeanFactory] Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@b9915a: defining beans [echoService]; root of factory hierarchy .............. [ContextLoader] Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 170 ms Within the web service implementation class, the WebServiceContext is injected through @Resource and the ServletContext is retrieved from this through the MessageContext, both of which are printed out from the service implementation as shown below: [STDOUT] WebServiceContext: org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.WebServiceContextJSE@477e4c [STDOUT] ServletContext: org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.soap.adapter.SOAPProcessorServletContext@1b4e510 But when I try to retrive the WebApplicationContext through: webApplicationContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(servletContext); which in turn internally calls: servletContext.getAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE); throws the exception: ERROR [InvocationHandlerJAXWS] Method invocation failed with exception: null java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ........................ Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Not yet supported at org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.soap.adapter.SOAPProcessorServletContext.getAttribute(SOAPProcessorServletContext.java:45) .................................. Can you please let me know if I'm missing something? Regards, Sagol View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4261838#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...