I have a SLSB with @WebService. I find that pojos have their @Id field set to null when marshalled despite it have a value in the SLSB. In the code fragment below you can see the field has a protected setters. When this signature is changed to public it works as expected.

Problem is that, by design, I cannot make the setter public on an identifying field. Is there a nother way to (un)marshall fields with protected setters?

@Entity
public class Foo implements Serializable {

 private Long fooId;

 protected Foo() {
 super();
 }

 @Id
 public Long getFooId() {
 return fooId;
 }

 protected void setFooId(Long fooId) {
 this.fooId = fooId;
 }
}