Spring return custom soap faults

Question

I use spring web services to provide my services as web services. I defined my soap error element as follows

<xsd:element name="systemFault">
        <xsd:complexType>
                <xsd:sequence>
                    <xsd:element name="faultCode" type="xsd:string" nillable="true"/>
                    <xsd:element name="faultMessage" type="xsd:string"/>
                </xsd:sequence>
        </xsd:complexType>
    </xsd:element>

and I use this in my WSDL

<wsdl:message name="msgSystemFault">
        <wsdl:part name="body" element="cred:SystemFault"/>
    </wsdl:message>

and then use this in operation

<wsdl:operation name="opMyOp">
            <wsdl:documentation>
                Creating an entity note.
            </wsdl:documentation>
            <wsdl:input message="tns:msgMyOpRequest"/>
            <wsdl:output message="tns:msgMyOpResponse"/>
            <wsdl:fault name="fault" message="tns:msgSystemFault"/>
        </wsdl:operation>

But when I want to reset this error at my endpoint, how can I do this?

Answer 1

You need an EndpointExceptionResolver , see the SpringWS guide on exception handling .

SpringWS comes with some built-in exceptions, you can use them as a reference when implementing your own.