Problems with web services with return type SOAPBodyElement

Issue

• I have a web service operation that has one parameter of org.w3c.dom.Element and a return type of SOAPBodyElement. I get the following exception when making a request to the service:

The exception and stack trace:
09:59:16,889 ERROR [SOAPFaultHelperJAXWS] SOAP request exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Parameter meta data not available
    at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPContentElement.getParamMetaData(SOAPContentElement.java:111)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPContentElement.getXmlType(SOAPContentElement.java:123)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.XMLContent.unmarshallObjectContents(XMLContent.java:155)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.XMLContent.transitionTo(XMLContent.java:96)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.DOMContent.transitionTo(DOMContent.java:74)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPContentElement.transitionTo(SOAPContentElement.java:140)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPBodyElementDoc.transitionTo(SOAPBodyElementDoc.java:85)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.soap.SOAPContentElement.getObjectValue(SOAPContentElement.java:172)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.EndpointInvocation.transformPayloadValue(EndpointInvocation.java:273)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.EndpointInvocation.getReturnValue(EndpointInvocation.java:197)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.CommonSOAPBinding.bindResponseMessage(CommonSOAPBinding.java:445)
    at org.jboss.ws.core.server.ServiceEndpointInvoker.invoke(ServiceEndpointInvoker.java:274)
    at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.processRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:469)
    at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.handleRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:294)
    at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.doPost(RequestHandlerImpl.java:203)
    at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.RequestHandlerImpl.handleHttpRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:129)
    at org.jboss.wsf.common.servlet.AbstractEndpointServlet.service(AbstractEndpointServlet.java:85)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)