>when passing parameters for method call, do the parameters have to be in >the right order that is defined on the services side?
For all practical purposes, in SOAP the parameters have to be in the same order as the service expects. I believe that in theory the SOAP spec allows for out-of-order parameters, but WS-I BP1.0a mandates that order is significant. And in practice, most SOAP toolkits do not handle out-of-order parameters very well. PS - I've noticed that axis-user has about 95% questions and 5% answers. That's too bad! I'm going to try answering questions I know the answers to, maybe others can as well? I bet there's a market for Axis consultants out there :-)