Interesting approach :) Although the hardcore web service people might argue that it is not a good pattern to follow ;)
Does axis2 with XMLBeans also provide the capability to directly access StAX to custom-parse incoming message parameters ?
Yep. All XMLBeans objects have a method to access the pullparser (although I'm not sure about the internal implementation). have a look at the generated toOM methods after codegenerating for XMLBeans.
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Ajith Ranabahu