How is exception handling supposed to work in Axis???

[Jack Lund <ja...@stagrp.com>]

As a follow-up to my previous question, how exactly are you supposed to 
do exception handling in Axis (specifically, 1.2.1)?

The user's guide says that as long as your exceptions inherit from 
java.lang.Exception, and are "beans", then it should just work. That 
hasn't been my experience, and, from what I can tell from the archives 
of this mailing list, people either seem to say:

a) Don't bother, it's too complicated. Bypass it altogether by either 
throwing subclasses of AxisFault or just returning the exception data as 
the return value from the method
 
or

b) it works, but only if you custom-craft your WSDL in some magic way, 
which noone seems to want to document anywhere

This seems to imply to me that the Axis user docs are seriously in 
error. Is this true? Should I be using something besides Axis to do 
this, because I really don't want to have to do something kludgy with 
the exceptions just to bypass a (really major) hole in the implementation.

-Jack