"Strong-typing" in spring web services

[johnoverbaugh]

Greetings - we are implementing a web services project in spring and have discovered in testing that the web services are not enforcing input types. Web services built in .NET/Visual Studio by default enforce input types and do not allow clients to 'submit' mal-formatted data (ie, a string when an int is expected).

Is there similar 'strong typing' functionality in the Spring framework and, if yes, could someone point me to documentation that explains how to enable this?

BTW: there's a chance this belongs in the CXF forum and I have cross-posted there.

Thanks,

John O.