I'm more stubborn than a mule with a bad attitude.
This is pretty much what I arrived at last night using "wsimport" and fiddling about. When using the "Bare" parameterStyle, you can only have one parameter and need to contain all the relevant data in there.
versus
That to me seems a bit counter-intuitive. "Bare" means the multiple parameters need to be "wrapped" in another object?
But of course "Bare" refers to the structure of the SOAP messages that are used, not the code itself. Either parameters are contained in a "Wrapping" element within the SOAP Body, or they are "Bare" and the Body contains n "parameter" elements (as in example 2.8). Unfortunately WS-I 1.1 prohibits multiple parameters in the Body, so you are stuck with one. Leading to the confusing situation that "Bare" and "Wrapped" messages look identical (as I found out when I used Wireshark to grab the SOAP Messages sent to the servers above.
Bare
Wrapped
In the first the "wrapping" has been done at the code level, if you follow me. Only one parameter was passed ("addNums") and it was "Bare" in the body. In the second, the parameters were "bare" in the code, but "wrapped" at run-time by JAX-WS and what have you.
Does that seem like a reasonable summary of the situation?
So I come back to the SOAP message in example 2.8. As far as I can tell it
cannot be used to call a web service. Or, if it can, I am at a total loss on how to code for it.
I can clearly see why Wrapped/Document/Literal is the default, it seems to lead to much easier coding (at least in Java and from what I have tried so far. I'll probably end up eating those words in a month!

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Thanks for all your time in this.