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Message Style Service and Exception Handling

           Summary: Message Style Service and Exception Handling
           Product: Axis
           Version: 1.1
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Deployment / Registries
        AssignedTo: axis-dev@ws.apache.org
        ReportedBy: pabreja@infigroup.com


Hello Everyone,

I have a MessageStyle service  which has the following signatures:

	Document sendData(Document doc) throws RemoteException{}

Everything works fine till I get an exception:

I wrote a method like this where I access the SOAPBody on the server side
and set the faultString and errorCode and return it to the client.

public static RemoteException setSOAPFaultElement(Exception ex) throws
RemoteException{
		try{
		javax.xml.soap.SOAPBody   sb1 =  null;
		sb1 =
MessageContext.getCurrentContext().getResponseMessage().getSOAPPart().getEnv
elope().getBody();
		System.out.println(sb1.getClass());
            javax.xml.soap.SOAPFault fault = sb1.addFault();
            fault.setFaultString("Exception " + ex.toString());
            System.out.println(fault.getFaultString());
            fault.setFaultCode("Server");
            System.out.println("Exception is being set in the fault body");
            return new RemoteException(ex.toString());
		}catch(SOAPException e){
            throw new RemoteException(ex.toString());
		}
	}


But on the client side when I get an exception and in the Exception block I
try to access the exception from the SOAPBody object I get a
NullPointerExcption and the SOAPBody is empty.

Then probing further I turned on the SOAPMonitor and discovered that the
there was no response message in cases where there is exception.

Looks like in case of message style service there are no capabilities to 
generate SOAPFault which is actually a MUST element by w3c in case of a  
exception.

As said by dims I am opening this bugzilla report and I hope we will be able 
to have a solution for the same.

Thanx in advance.

Bhanu Pabreja.