I seem to be hitting a problem with Enumerations again. The original issue I raised at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XFIRE-520 was resolved by explicitly coding <serviceFactory/> in services.xml. The problem has returned, but for an enumeration that is at the 'top' level of the schema. I have created a stripped down version of the offending WSDL and created a simple test project and client. The client will talk to the service OK, if both are XFire, but if the client is Axis, I get a de-serialisation Exception. Examination of the payload reveals an incorrect serialisation of the enumeration value: <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <soap:Body> <getEnumerationCommandStatusResponse xmlns="http://test.bt.com/2006/07/Testing/Enumeration/Service"> <enumerationCommandStatus xmlns="http://test.bt.com/2006/07/Testing/Enumeration">IN_PROGRESS</enumerationCommandStatus> </getEnumerationCommandStatusResponse> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope> schema values for the enumeration are: <xs:simpleType name="EnumerationCommandStatus"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:enumeration value="Initial"/> <xs:enumeration value="InProgress"/> <xs:enumeration value="Succeeded"/> <xs:enumeration value="Failed"/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType>