I'm trying to develope a soap web service that has to access a mysql db.

I have to replicate an existing service, so I created all the stub object from it's wsdl file

Netbeans created all the necessary stuff for me (new, web service from wsdl), it works ok...

Now I'm trying to use JPA to load all those objects from the database.

So far I was going fine, I created the classes using (new, entity class from database), and then copied all the annotations to the classes generated by wsimport, and it was working fine.

The problem is that netbeans insists on running wsimport again, and then I loose all my annotations...

Is there some way to tell netbeans not to regenerate those files?

I think this situation shoulb be pretty common, I mean developing a web service from a wsdl and then having to fill those objects with data using JPA.

what would be the correct aproach to this kind of situation?

thanks a lot saludos sas

I've also tried inheriting from the stubs, and addign there the persistence annotations, but I had troubles with overlaping members, I'm redeclaring protected properties...