learning Spring-WS airline sample

Hello fellow Spring-WS enthusiasts!

I am just getting started with Spring-WS and have some Questions regarding how to get going/running with it :).

I was interested in trying the airline sample since it show a more complete example of the WS. However it uses OpenJPA and I would be interested in using JPA-Hibernate ( as would many others out there, I imagine ). It seems impossible to convert the project over from OpenJPA to hibernate... I guess you would need to re-do the project just using the source.

Another difficulty I see is the configuration of all the dependencies for Spring-WS. I have a hard time following the configs for the samples, (../parent/Pom.xml eventually seems to point to nowhere from the sample dir's Pom ).

Is it possible to create/run projects outside this sample dir ? What about all the dependencies ?

How could you setup a project just using your Maven Repo?

Is it possible to start-up a Spring-WS using SpringRoo ?

Are there any examples, Youtubes, Tutorials out there ?

Thanks for any help or pointers to get going !

Johnny O.