Web service based data Control lost it's operations

HELP!!
I came back into a Jdeveloper project that had web services exposed as data controls and now the operations and their returns are missing in the Data Control Palette!!
All I see is the Data Control name, NO operations under them.
How do I get this back easily?

Hi,
the sample was built in 11.1.1.3, which however should not matter. The arguments are not manually added to the metadata. Instead your web service method must have it defined as an argument. ADF WS Data Control then makes sure the parameter metadata is generated as well, when you create the WS DC
Frank

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It might be that after saving you get an error. This might be as the package name of one component is copied to the corresponding Java class at the very beginning (before the package declaration within the Java class). Simply delete the string here.
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