SOAP attachment : swaref and jaxb2 with spring-ws

hello,

I have been trying to use swaref (attachment profile 1.x attachment profile 1.x in order to send a file as a SOAP attachement, using spring-ws on the server side and Jaxb2 as the marshalling / unmarshalling layer.

In the (generated) wsdl i get :

Code:

---

<xs:schema ... xmlns:ref="http://ws-i.org/profiles/basic/1.1/xsd" ...>
...
<xs:complexType name="InfoAttachement">
  <xs:sequence>
    <xs:element name="reference" type="ref:swaRef"/>
  </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

---

As a matter of fact the mapping class generated by jaxb-xjc is correctly annoted with @xmlAttachmentRef :

Code:

---

...
public class InfoAttachement {
    @XmlElement(required = true, type = String.class)
    @XmlAttachmentRef
    protected DataHandler reference;
...

---

So everything seems to be ok on the client side and as a matter of fact fhe client (soapui) correctly associates the attachment with the swaref in the mime-content.

The problem stands on the server side as i get a null reference in the InfoAttachement when i try to deal with the request.

I am using the following fw versions :
- latest spring-ws 1.5.8,
- sun jaxb2 2.1.12,
- sun saaj 1.3
The attachment is there as i have been able to get access to it so i figure there might be a problem between jaxb2 and spring-ws.

So i was wondering if spring-ws actually supports this kind of SOAP attachment ?
Or maybe i am just doing wrong and there is a way to make it work properly ?