Hi! I´m new to JBoss and also my experience with developing Web Services are reduced to some auto-generating stuff in Netweaver. So I had a look at some internet-pages and found the new features of ejb3 and JBossWS. So I tried to start with a simple HelloWorld EJB + WebService:

HelloWorldBean:

@Stateless
@WebService(
 name="EndpointInterface",
 targetNamespace="http://facade.charon/jaws",
 serviceName="HelloWorldService")

@SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.RPC)
@Remote(HelloWorldRemoteInterface.class)
public class HelloWorldBean implements HelloWorldRemoteInterface {
 public static final String RemoteJNDIName = HelloWorldBean.class
 .getSimpleName()
 + "/remote";

 @WebMethod
 public String getHello() {
 return "HelloWorld";
 }
}

HelloWorldRemoteInterface:

public interface HelloWorldRemoteInterface {
 @WebMethod
 public String getHello();
}

Client:

...
 URL url = new URL("http://localhost:8080/hello/HelloWorldBean?wsdl");
 QName qname = new QName("http://facade.charon/jaws",
 "HelloWorldService");

 ServiceFactory factory = ServiceFactory.newInstance();
 Service service = factory.createService(url, qname);

 HelloWorldRemoteInterface hw = (HelloWorldRemoteInterface) service
 .getPort(HelloWorldRemoteInterface.class);
 System.out.println(hw.getHello());
...

Compiling and deploying works fine, JBoss says WebService started. But when I try to connect via client code, I get following exception within JBoss:

10:20:40,960 ERROR [SOAPFaultExceptionHelper] SOAP request exception
javax.xml.rpc.soap.SOAPFaultException: Endpoint {http://facade.charon/jaws}EndpointInterfacePort does not contain operation meta data for: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Envelope

on Client side this results to:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.ws.soap.SOAPMessageImpl

The exeption is thrown in following line: System.out.println(hw.getHello());

Can somebody help me? Maybe somebody can give me a link to a tutorial which contains such an example?

Thx,
Ernie