I had the same problem and -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 option helped. May be this is JBossWS's bug? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4120998#4120998 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4120998