Exception handling!

[carlos sanchez]

Hi, I'm learning web services the hard way (big project Vs no time) and I'm drowning to find nfo on internet about handling exceptions in a web-service.
What I've figured out is that exceptions thrown by a web-service are wrapped up by a remote exception (correct me please if I'm wrong) somewhere in a handler and send back as a fault code in a soap message.
Do I have to write a handler to use my personal fault codes.
can somebody post an example please?

[Balaji Loganathan]

Are you Apache Axis ?
if so there is example on how to handle such fault exception,shown here, is this what u r looking for ?
To learn quickly, try to run all the examples in apache axis package, then u will get an overall idea what u can-cant do with webservices in general.

[carlos sanchez]

Hi, I'm trying to understand the examples, and I've generated 2 dummy classes:
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package faults.impl;
public class Dummy
{
public String sayHello(String hello) throws DummyFault
{
if (hello.equals("hello!")) return "hi there!";
else
{
DummyFault fault = new DummyFault();
fault.setInfo("bad maners!");
throw fault;
}
}
}
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package faults.impl;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
public class DummyFault extends RemoteException implements java.io.Serializable
{
private java.lang.String info;
public DummyFault() {
}
public DummyFault(
java.lang.String info) {
this.info = info;
}
public java.lang.String getInfo() {
return info;
}
public void setInfo(java.lang.String info) {
this.info = info;
}
}
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As you can see it's the same as the example, but when trying to buid the wsdl (C:\eclipse2.1\eclipse\workspace\Compile>java org.apache.axis.wsdl.Java2WSDL -o dummy.wsdl -l"http://localhost:8080/axis/services/Dummy" -n"urn ummy" -p"urn ummy" "faults" faults.impl.Dummy) I get an :
- The class java.lang.Throwable is defined in a java or javax package and cannot be converted into an xml schema type. An xml schema anyType will be used to define this class in the wsdl file.

Do I have to buid manually my wsdl & wsdd files? (Supose superduper developers with a lot of time do it the hard way!)

[carlos sanchez]

If I change RemoteException for Exception when I implement my exception class It works, why?

[Balaji Loganathan]

Originally posted by carlos i sanchez:
As you can see it's the same as the example, but when trying to buid the wsdl (C:\eclipse2.1\eclipse\workspace\Compile>java org.apache.axis.wsdl.Java2WSDL -o dummy.wsdl -l"http://localhost:8080/axis/services/Dummy" -n"urn ummy" -p"urn ummy" "faults" faults.impl.Dummy) I get an :

Don't know why, but did you tried to deploy the service using Adminclient-WSDD file and see the output WSDL using in Axis administration page and error message in servlet log??

[carlos sanchez]

yup! I've followed on and used WSDL2Java, I had to correct some errors on the generated Exception Class (an object casted to a throwable), but axis crashes when I try to load it!
Thanks anyway!