Hi!
Mat Anthony wrote: Would it be better to switch to spring JAX-WS, briefly looked at this, but it seems to use annotations and less work to create
a web service than above.
This depends on what you want to do. However, I do advice you to give JAX-WS web services a try - go through a couple of tutorials or so. Then later you can decide which web service framework is appropriate for your requirements.
Best wishes!