I had a look at the date,time and timestamp return types. My test was with the following service (@see attachment): public Date getCurrentDate() { Date date = new Date(); log.debug("getCurrentDate="+date.toString()); return date; } public Time getCurrentTime() { Date date = new Date(); Time time = new Time(date.getTime()); log.debug("getCurrentTime="+time.toString()); return time; } public Timestamp getCurrentTimestamp() { Date date = new Date(); Timestamp time = new Timestamp(date.getTime()); log.debug("getCurrentTimestampe="+time.toString()); return time; } The generated wsdl look like this <xsd:element name="getCurrentDateResponse"> - <xsd:complexType> - <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="out" type="xsd:dateTime" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> ------------- should that not be xsd:date as type attribute of out element? ------------- <xsd:element name="getCurrentTimestampResponse"> - <xsd:complexType> - <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="out" type="ns1:Timestamp" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:schema targetNamespace="http://sql.java" elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="qualified"> - - <xsd:complexType name="Timestamp"> - <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="date" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="day" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="hours" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="minutes" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="month" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="nanos" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="seconds" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="time" type="xsd:long" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="timezoneOffset" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="year" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:schema> -------------- shoudl that not be xsd:dateTime as type attribute of out element? -------------- <xsd:element name="getCurrentTimeResponse"> - <xsd:complexType> - <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="out" type="ns1:Time" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:schema targetNamespace="http://sql.java" elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="qualified"> - <xsd:complexType name="Time"> - <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="date" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="day" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="hours" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="minutes" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="month" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="seconds" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="time" type="xsd:long" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="timezoneOffset" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> <xsd:element name="year" type="xsd:int" nillable="true"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> ------------------ should that not be xsd:Time as type attribute of out element? ------------------ Date produce a string parseable with simpledateform as return type and timestamp a object with subelements as described in the complextype. The problem is only time which forces a error: 16354 [http-8080-Processor25] DEBUG test.ProductServiceImpl - getCurrentTime=21:53:18 16394 [http-8080-Processor25] DEBUG org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.type.basic.BeanType - Couldn't find type descriptor /java/sql/Time.aegis.xml org.codehaus.xfire.XFireRuntimeException: Couldn't get property {http://sql.java}date at org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.type.basic.BeanType.readProperty(BeanType.java:202) at org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.type.basic.BeanType.writeObject(BeanType.java:170) at org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.AegisBindingProvider.writeParameter(AegisBindingProvider.java:84) at org.codehaus.xfire.service.binding.WrappedBinding.writeMessage(WrappedBinding.java:127) at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.AbstractSoapChannel.sendSoapMessage(AbstractSoapChannel.java:56) at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.http.HttpSoapChannel.send(HttpSoapChannel.java:53) at org.codehaus.xfire.exchange.RobustInOutExchange.doExchange(RobustInOutExchange.java:100) at org.codehaus.xfire.transport.SoapServiceEndpoint.onReceive(SoapServiceEndpoint.java:70)