Hi Richard, Thanks for your reply. Let me correct something in my previous posting the result I'm getting is that the string is being escaped as follows | env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> | <env:Header/> | <env:Body> | <roun:GetALifeResponse xmlns:roun="http://roundtrip.developerWorks.ibm.com"> | <GetALifeReturn xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> | <deathday>2002-12-24T14:14:47.646Z</deathday> | <birthday>1910-05-14T15:14:47.646Z</birthday> | <ns_str:str xmlns:ns_str="http://roundtrip.developerWorks.ibm.com">&lt;![CDATA[&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>]]&gt;</ns_str:str> | </GetALifeReturn> | </roun:GetALifeResponse> | </env:Body> | </env:Envelope> | The reality is that when I run this the character is getting escaped now I'm not sure whether my configuration is correct or not ? the only thing that really baffle me is that it works in WebSphere without any problem but it got escaped in JBoss and as I explained in my previous post going through the source code it does gets escaped the question is why ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4247275#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...