It looks ike the answer is NO for top down development (my 1st choice). I am referring to the tutorial @ http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/webservices_overview/#Project_Capabilities

This is because:

1) Creating a new web service using the XFire framework pulled in some very old Spring 1.2.6 libraries that are clashing with my Spring 3.0 ones (this occurred right after I added XFire Web Service capabilities to my existing project). Also, I am now fighting with various NoClassDefFoundError exceptions because not all necessary libraries were added to my project (and I have no idea what version it needs).

2) Other old libraries have been included such as log4j (?hbow many others do I have to purge from the build path libraries??)

3) server.xml as constructued by following the tutorial's instructions resulted in a "can't find resource" exception that required me to change the server tag namespace.

4) Choosing XFire when creating a web service has the impression that it's deprecated (in the UI as well as this tutorial).

So, has MyEclipse personnel, or anybody out there, validated whether this tutorial is still current? Thank you.

i found the following on XFire 1.2.6 and Spring 3.0 compatibility:
https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-6157
This means I should be able to run a deprecated XFire in my Spring 3.0 RELEASE framework (at least if it wasn't for all the other old stuff MyEclipse added to my project).

Now, if MyEclipse support can answer my original question, I would appreciate it. Thank you.

The JAX-WS tutorial also doesn't cover the normal workflow portion where you add a method or other interface item and need to "re-generate" the web service.

In this case, for me at least, the delegate field in the (bottom-up) web service wizard is disabled. I can't use top-down since the wsdl will be changing.

I've been trying to get a resolution from MyEclipse folks since version 7.5.

They won't respond to emails.

I also got the "we've forwarded this to the dev team" type message, but that was months ago.

???

:(