a getter signature of a return type class affects whether the response would be MTOM(XOP Include) or inline string

A getter signature of a return type class affects whether the response would be MTOM(XOP Include) or inline string in case that MTOM is enabled.

The return type class has a DataHandler field like:

@XmlRootElement
@XmlType(name = "imageResult")
public class ImageResult implements Serializable {

...
private DataHandler tiff;

@XmlMimeType("application/octet-stream")
@XmlElement(name = "tiff")
public DataHandler getTiff()

{ return tiff;}

public void setTiff(DataHandler tiff)

{this.tiff = tiff;}

}

If getTiff() is modified to getSometing(), then the response would be inline string.

Because...
On deploy time, ParameterMetaData is marked as XOP=true.
It depends on org.jboss.ws.extensions.xop.jaxws.ReflectiveAttachmentRefScanner.scanBean() and scanGetterAnnotation() [1].
So if the getter's signature doesn't conform javabean getter constraint "getTiff", ReflectiveAttachmentRefScanner will miss to mark it XOP=true.

This constraint should be documented.

[1] http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossws/stack/native/tags/jbossws-native-3.1.2.SP3_CP01/modules/core/src/main/java/org/jboss/ws/extensions/xop/jaxws/ReflectiveAttachmentRefScanner.java