Consuming a Web Service with ABAP in WAS 6.40 (SS3)

Hi Everyone,
     Has anyone successfully consumed a web service (based on an EJB) that is published to the J2EE engine of their WAS 6.40 server by creating a proxy from the ABAP layer?
     We are encountering the following problem: When executing method of the proxy to call the Web Service on the J2EE engine, the CX_AI_SYSTEM_FAULT exception is triggered with the message "Unallowed RFC-XML Tag (SOAP_EINVALDOC)".
     This same problem has occurred with multiple web services, even though the proxy generation seems to execute without a problem. Is there some system setting that could cause this? We have run the SOAP Runtime trace, but only receive the same basic information about the problem.
     If anyone has any thoughts at all, I'd be grateful to hear them.
     Thanks,
        --Greg

Hi,
We encountered problems when consuming a foreign WS. It seems to be that RPC style WSDL isn't supported by the WAS 6.4 WS proxy. An interesting reading on this is
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