Hi all,

I have a session bean that is trying to access a soap web service, wrap the response and return it to the callee. When I run unit test directly against the code that does the calling i.e. when it is outside the JEE container everything works as planned.

However when I call the code from a standalone ejb test client via the session bean I get the following error in JBOSS:

WARN [ServiceDelegateImpl] Cannot access wsdlURL: https://acme.com/test.wsdl
WARN [ServiceDelegateImpl] Cannot get port meta data for: {http://acme.com/doc/2006-03-01/}TEST
ERROR [TestFacade] There was an error creating a bucket
ERROR [TestFacade] org.jboss.ws.WSException: Target endpoint address not set

On the client I get the error:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.ws.WSException

I have am using maven to do the build with the jaxws-maven-plugin. It seems that JBOSS has some issue with not being able to locate the wsdl. I have defined the wsimport part of my pom.xml as follows:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
 <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
 <executions>
 <execution>
 <goals>
 <goal>wsimport</goal>
 </goals>
 <configuration>
 <verbose>true</verbose>
 <keep>true</keep>
 <packageName>za.co.jumpingbean.test</packageName>
 <sourceDestDir>src/main/java</sourceDestDir>
 <wsdlLocation>https://acme.com/doc/2006-03-01/test.wsdl</wsdlLocation>
 <!--wsdlUrls><wsdlUrl>https://acme.com/doc/2006-03-01/test.wsdl</wsdlUrl></wsdlUrls-->
 </configuration>
 </execution>
 </executions>
 </plugin>

I have tried placing the wsdl location in the wsdlLocation element and wsdlUrl element but there is no difference in outcome. I have been unable to find any help on this. What I do find is talking more about creating you own web service with jaxws but I am looking at consuming a web service from an EJB session bean.

Any pointer or help appreciated.
thanks