We do the following in <b>org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.ArchiveDeployerHook.getWebservicesMetaData(DeploymentUnit unit)</b>

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/** Unmrashall the webservices.xml if there is one
*/
protected WebservicesMetaData getWebservicesMetaData(DeploymentUnit unit)
{
WebservicesMetaData wsMetaData = unit.getAttachment(WebservicesMetaData.class);
UnifiedVirtualFile vfWebservices = getWebservicesFile(unit);
if (wsMetaData == null && vfWebservices != null)
{
try
{
URL wsURL = vfWebservices.toURL();
Element root = DOMUtils.parse(wsURL.openStream());
String namespaceURI = root.getNamespaceURI();
if (namespaceURI.equals("http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"))

{ Unmarshaller unmarshaller = UnmarshallerFactory.newInstance().newUnmarshaller(); ObjectModelFactory factory = new WebservicesFactory(wsURL); wsMetaData = (WebservicesMetaData)unmarshaller.unmarshal(wsURL.openStream(), factory, null); unit.addAttachment(WebservicesMetaData.class, wsMetaData); }

}
catch (Exception ex)

{ throw new WSFDeploymentException(ex); }

}
return wsMetaData;
}
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It integrates with deployers improperly. This method should be refactored to separate deployer that does this translation job from webservices.xml -> WebservicesMetaData class