Hi Steve, Dennis: http://www.sosnoski.com/presents/java-xml/axis/axis-service.html)
Stu: The whole process you describe can be automated with Ant. The toughest part (not that tough!) would be generating a transform to do step 4. Steve: that is for <replaceregexp> Stu replies: <replaceregexp> would be easy for one bean, but a little more work for a large design with an arbitrary number of beans, hence arbitrary number number of replacements to be made, not known in advance. Love your book btw. Regards, Stu ---------------------------------------------------------- Stuart Halloway : staff.develop.com/halloway DevelopMentor : www.develop.com Essential Java : www.develop.com/courses/essjava ----------------------------------------------------------