Hi, my name is Brett, and my company is pretty new to java web services, but we need to use them to communicate between PowerBuilder and EJB3.

As far as I can tell, it looks like the annotations from the javax.xml.bind.annotation are being completely ignored in our deployed web services. Below is an example:

The web service class...

package com.nsighttel.ejb.services.validation.creditcard;

import java.io.Serializable;

import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;

import com.nsighttel.domain.MonthYearWS;

@Stateless
@WebService
@SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.RPC, parameterStyle = SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.WRAPPED)
public class CreditCardVerificationServiceWS implements Serializable {
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

 @WebMethod
 public int isValid(
 @WebParam(name = "cardExp")MonthYearWS cardExpWS
 ){
 return 1;
 }

}

And the class for the WebParam...

package com.nsighttel.domain;

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlTransient;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class MonthYearWS implements Serializable {
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
 private Boolean isNull;
 private Integer month;
 private Integer year;
 @XmlTransient private MonthYear obj;


 public MonthYearWS(Boolean isNull, Integer month, Integer year) {
 this.isNull = isNull;
 this.month = month;
 this.year = year;
 if (isNull == null || !isNull){
 obj = new MonthYear(month,year);
 }
 }

 public Boolean getIsNull() {
 return isNull;
 }

 public void setIsNull(Boolean isNull) {
 this.isNull = isNull;
 }

 public Integer getMonth() {
 return month;
 }

 public void setMonth(Integer month) {
 this.month = month;
 }

 public Integer getYear() {
 return year;
 }

 public void setYear(Integer year) {
 this.year = year;
 }

 @XmlTransient
 public MonthYear getObj(){
 return obj;
 }

 public void setObj(MonthYear obj){
 this.obj = obj;
 }
}

No matter what annotations I use, I get isNull, month, year, and obj all in my WSDL file for the above web service. The @XmlTransient annotation on the getObj() function is not being honored, as I am still getting obj in the WSDL file. Furthermore, if I take away all of the public getter functions, then I get no elements in my WSDL file. Therefore, the @XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD) is not being honored either.

I have tried a few other annotations from the javax.xml.bind.annotation package, but none of them appear to be working either.

Could someone please clue me in to what I may be doing wrong? Does Jboss not support these annotations? Or maybe the annotations do not apply to web services?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-Brett Birschbach