I have installed JBossAS 4.0.5GA and JBossWS's latest release I found on the site 1.0.4.GA. I followed the installation instructions given in install.txt under JBossWS.

In order to install JBossWS the following steps are necessary:

1.) Copy lib/jbossws-client.jar to $JBOSS_HOME/client/
2.) Unzip lib/jbossws.sar to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/
3.) Replacing jboss-xml-binding.jar

You need to manually replace the jboss-xml-binding.jar in the $JBOSS_HOME/client and $JBOSS_HOME/lib directories.
The compatible release can be found here: http://repository.jboss.com/jboss/jbossxb/1.0.0.CR7


On running wstools for my wsdl files I get following exception -
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.File.(File.java:194)
at org.jboss.ws.tools.helpers.ToolsHelper.handleWSDLToJavaGeneration(Too
lsHelper.java:282)
at org.jboss.ws.tools.WSTools.process(WSTools.java:138)
at org.jboss.ws.tools.WSTools.generate(WSTools.java:120)
at org.jboss.ws.tools.WSTools.main(WSTools.java:61)

My wstools.xml looks like this -

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration xmlns="http://www.jboss.org/jbossws-tools">
 <global>
 <package-namespace package="org.jbpm.bpel.tutorial.hello"
 namespace="http://jbpm.org/examples/hello" />
 <package-namespace package="org.jbpm.bpel.tutorial.hello"
 namespace="http://www.eclipse.org/alf/schema/EventBase/1" />
 </global>
 <wsdl-java file="file://D:/jbpm-bpel-1.1.Beta3/examples/hello/target/resources/web/wsdl/hello-service.wsdl">
 <mapping file="jaxrpc-mapping.xml" />
 </wsdl-java>
</configuration>

The reason for having full path there is to make sure that the problem wasn't related to relative path which was 'wsdl/hello-service.wsdl'

My hello.wsdl looks like this -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions targetNamespace="http://jbpm.org/examples/hello"
 xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
 xmlns:tns="http://jbpm.org/examples/hello"
 xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
 xmlns:plt="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/05/partner-link/"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:evt="http://www.eclipse.org/alf/schema/EventBase/1">


 <import namespace="http://www.eclipse.org/alf/schema/EventBase/1" location="resources/xml/ALFEventManagerSOAP.wsdl" />
 <!-- characterizes the relationship between the greeter and its caller -->
 <plt:partnerLinkType name="Greeter-Caller">
 <plt:role name="Greeter">
 <plt:portType name="evt:ALFServiceFlowWithReply" />
 </plt:role>
 <!-- the Caller does not provide services to the Greeter,
 this is why we omit the "Caller" role -->
 </plt:partnerLinkType>

 </definitions>

and my ALFEventManagerSOAP.wsdl is located under that relative path 'resources/xml'.

Please let me know what is wrong here. Is my configuration file right?
From the error and the source code it fails on this line

if (wsdlURL == null)
 {
 File wsdlFile = new File(w2jc.wsdlLocation);
 if (wsdlFile.exists())
 {
 wsdlURL = wsdlFile.toURL();
 }
 }

Line where it says new File so I guess something is wrong with my configuration and it cannot file wsdl files correctly?

Thank you,
Meghana