Hi Tom,

Here is my jboss-esb.xml, action class and client. Maybe the helloworld quickstart had no problems because it was registered in juddi registry already.

Try a new service that is not registered in juddi registry yet. If you set inVmScope Global, it won't be registered. You can use my example, if you want to, by replacing the class Book for a simple String and comenting the EJB3 call in the action.

My scenario has 2 instances os JBoss:

     SOAP 5.1 - ESB  - ports-default

     EAP 5.1 - EJB - ports-01

1) jboss-esb.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<jbossesb parameterReloadSecs="5"

          xmlns="http://anonsvn.labs.jboss.com/labs/jbossesb/trunk/product/etc/schemas/xml/jbossesb-1.2.0.xsd"

          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"           xsi:schemaLocation="http://anonsvn.labs.jboss.com/labs/jbossesb/trunk/product/etc/schemas/xml/jbossesb-1.2.0.xsd           http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossesb/trunk/product/etc/schemas/xml/jbossesb-1.2.0.xsd">

<services>

     <service category="MyServiceCategory" description="Just a test" invmScope="GLOBAL" name="MyService"> 

           <actions mep="RequestResponse">

                <action class="br.com.soa.action.AddBookAction" name="AddBook"/>

           </actions>

     </service>

</services>

</jbossesb>

2) AddBookAction.java

public class AddBookAction {

          @Process

          public Message addBook(Message msg) {

                    Object obj = msg.getBody().get("book");

                    Book myBook = (Book) obj;

                    try {

                              Properties prop = new Properties();

                              prop.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");

                              prop.put("java.naming.provider.url", "jnp://localhost:1199");

                              prop.put("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs", "org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");

                              InitialContext context = new InitialContext(prop);

                              BookingService ejb = (BookingService) context.lookup("Library-EAR/BookingServiceBean/remote");

                              ejb.save(myBook);

                              msg.getBody().add("Status" , "sucess");

                    } catch (Exception e) {

                              System.out.println("Erro: " + e.getMessage());

                              msg.getBody().add("Status" , "error");

                    }

                    return msg;

          }

3) ClientApp.java

public static void main(String[] args) {

     try {

            System.setProperty("javax.xml.registry.ConnectionFactoryClass", "org.apache.ws.scout.registry.ConnectionFactoryImpl");

                                        ServiceInvoker invoker = new ServiceInvoker("MyServiceCategory", "MyService");

                                        Message msg = MessageFactory.getInstance().getMessage();

                                          Book book = new Book();

                                          book.setId(new Long(1));

                                          book.setTitle("ESB Test");

                                         msg.getBody().add("book", book); 

                                         msg.getProperties().setProperty("org.jboss.soa.esb.exceptionOnDeliverFailure", "true");

                                        Message returnMessage = invoker.deliverSync(msg, 2000l);

                                        String str = (String) retorno.getBody().get("Status");

                                        System.out.println("status of test: " + str);

                      } catch (Exception e) {

                                        System.out.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());

                                        System.exit(0);

                      }

          }