Ronald Thanks for your help. There is already a jira on this issue - I just couldn't get the described fix to work (see the first post). My hope was that somebody actually had tried the fix, and was able to help me. I will find another way to solve the problem (probably using xStream, xmlBeans or equivalent). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4178028#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...