determining if the soap call was successful or not

[Rich Catlett <ri...@more.net>]

I'm writing a soap messaging client, I created the envelope, I created 
the message, and then I sent the message.  The service will be returning 
an envelope so I used the message.recieveEnvelope() method, and then the 
envelope.getBody() method to get the body.  This is where I get a little 
lost.  I want to determine if the body contains a soap fault or the XML 
data of a success.  Do I

1. use the body.getAttribute() method to check for a SOAP-ENV:fault such 
as the following

if (body.getAttribute(new QName("SOAP-ENV:Fault")) == null) {
   // success
   return body.toString();  // body being the XML data from a successful 
response
}else {
   // extract the fault string and first line of the stacktrace and return

I'm not sure how I might do this either, could I use the getAttribute 
method again, I'm guessing that the QName might go something like this

body.getAttribute(new QName("SOAP-ENV:Fault(some sort of 
connector)faultstring"));

or should I use the body.getBodyEntries() and then search the resluting 
vector for the faultstring and stacktrace entries.

2. use the body.getBodyEntries() method, search for a SOAP-ENV:Fault 
entry, if there is not one return the body.toString(), else if there is 
a SOAP-ENV:Fault entry search for falutstring and stacktrace entries and 
return those.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Rich Catlett