So after an entire weekend of frustration with tutorials such as http://xfire.codehaus.org/JSR+181+Annotations and http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44565 I think I have come up with a way to test XFire services deployed through Tomcat during my Maven build. So I created an annotated version of an Echo Service: package com.baselogic.service; import javax.jws.WebMethod; import javax.jws.WebParam; import javax.jws.WebResult; import javax.jws.WebService; import [...]