Dr. Jung. Thank you again for your reply.

There were two issues I was tripping over. The first (see the odd posting starting with "Eye of Newt" in this forum), had to do with a class collision between the commons-logging.jar file I was loading in my WAR and the commons-loading.jar already in the jboss-net sub-directory. That was easy to solve (once I figured out what was going on).

This other one had an equally simple solution, though the results are slightly imperfect. If I include a copy of the custom class (actually the full jar from the project) in the wsr file, the class deploys without issue.

-- Actually, something you said in your last post made me want to try it without the jar. That seems to work now as well --

The only issue remaining may not have a resolution. The class gets recognized during the WSDL generation as cert:User, but SoapEnvelopes returned from calls to the service list the class as ns1:User, and java sees the class as org.apache.crimson.tree.ElementNode2, which that's probably a default. The upshot is that Java Clients have to treat the object as a Node rather than as an Object. Since our consumer is a .NET client, that may not be an issue.

If you have any thoughts on this, please let me know:

(FYI: Jboss 3.2.2. Please let me know if you would still like to see a sample deployment unit.)

SOAP:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

- <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

- <soapenv:Body>

- <getUserResponse soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">

 <UserGreeting href="#id0" />

 </getUserResponse>

- <multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns1:User" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns1="http://cvs.east.frontiercorp.com/cert">

 <name xsi:type="xsd:string">My Name</name>

 </multiRef>

 </soapenv:Body>

 </soapenv:Envelope>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

- <wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xmlns:impl="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" xmlns:intf="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:tns1="http://cvs.east.frontiercorp.com/cert" xmlns:tns2="http://net.jboss.org/jmx" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:wsdlsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

- <wsdl:types>

- <schema targetNamespace="http://cvs.east.frontiercorp.com/cert" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

 <import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" />

- <complexType name="User">

- <sequence>

 <element name="name" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" />

 </sequence>

 </complexType>

 </schema>

- <schema targetNamespace="http://net.jboss.org/jmx" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

 <import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" />

- <simpleType name="ObjectNameType">

- <simpleContent>

 <extension base="xsd:string" />

 </simpleContent>

 </simpleType>

 </schema>

- <schema targetNamespace="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

 <import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" />

- <complexType name="mapItem">

- <sequence>

 <element name="key" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" />

 <element name="value" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" />

 </sequence>

 </complexType>

- <complexType name="Map">

- <sequence>

 <element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="item" type="apachesoap:mapItem" />

 </sequence>

 </complexType>

 </schema>

- <schema targetNamespace="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

 <import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" />

- <complexType name="ArrayOf_apachesoap_Map">

- <complexContent>

- <restriction base="soapenc:Array">

 <attribute ref="soapenc:arrayType" wsdl:arrayType="apachesoap:Map[]" />

 </restriction>

 </complexContent>

 </complexType>

 </schema>

 </wsdl:types>

- <wsdl:message name="getNameResponse">

 <wsdl:part name="Greeting" type="xsd:string" />

 </wsdl:message>

- <wsdl:message name="getMapResponse">

 <wsdl:part name="MapGreeting" type="impl:ArrayOf_apachesoap_Map" />

 </wsdl:message>

- <wsdl:message name="getUserRequest">

 <wsdl:part name="name" type="xsd:string" />

 </wsdl:message>

- <wsdl:message name="getMapRequest">

 <wsdl:part name="someData" type="xsd:string" />

 </wsdl:message>

- <wsdl:message name="getNameRequest">

 <wsdl:part name="Name" type="xsd:string" />

 </wsdl:message>

- <wsdl:message name="getUserResponse">

 <wsdl:part name="UserGreeting" type="tns1:User" />

 </wsdl:message>

- <wsdl:portType name="ComplexWebServiceTestEjbLocal">

- <wsdl:operation name="getName" parameterOrder="Name">

 <wsdl:input message="impl:getNameRequest" name="getNameRequest" />

 <wsdl:output message="impl:getNameResponse" name="getNameResponse" />

 </wsdl:operation>

- <wsdl:operation name="getMap" parameterOrder="someData">

 <wsdl:input message="impl:getMapRequest" name="getMapRequest" />

 <wsdl:output message="impl:getMapResponse" name="getMapResponse" />

 </wsdl:operation>

- <wsdl:operation name="getUser" parameterOrder="name">

 <wsdl:input message="impl:getUserRequest" name="getUserRequest" />

 <wsdl:output message="impl:getUserResponse" name="getUserResponse" />

 </wsdl:operation>

 </wsdl:portType>

- <wsdl:binding name="ComplexWebServiceTestSoapBinding" type="impl:ComplexWebServiceTestEjbLocal">

 <wsdlsoap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" />

- <wsdl:operation name="getName">

 <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction="ComplexWebServiceTest" />

- <wsdl:input name="getNameRequest">

 <wsdlsoap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" use="encoded" />

 </wsdl:input>

- <wsdl:output name="getNameResponse">

 <wsdlsoap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" use="encoded" />

 </wsdl:output>

 </wsdl:operation>

- <wsdl:operation name="getMap">

 <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction="ComplexWebServiceTest" />

- <wsdl:input name="getMapRequest">

 <wsdlsoap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" use="encoded" />

 </wsdl:input>

- <wsdl:output name="getMapResponse">

 <wsdlsoap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" use="encoded" />

 </wsdl:output>

 </wsdl:operation>

- <wsdl:operation name="getUser">

 <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction="ComplexWebServiceTest" />

- <wsdl:input name="getUserRequest">

 <wsdlsoap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" use="encoded" />

 </wsdl:input>

- <wsdl:output name="getUserResponse">

 <wsdlsoap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" use="encoded" />

 </wsdl:output>

 </wsdl:operation>

 </wsdl:binding>

- <wsdl:service name="ComplexWebServiceTestEjbLocalService">

- <wsdl:port binding="impl:ComplexWebServiceTestSoapBinding" name="ComplexWebServiceTest">

 <wsdlsoap:address location="http://localhost:8080/jboss-net/services/ComplexWebServiceTest" />

 </wsdl:port>

 </wsdl:service>

 </wsdl:definitions>