The exceptionName element is a something I made up to allow Axis to throw the same exception on the client as was thrown on the server. This is Axis specific and does not interoperate with any other implementation.
This functionality has been superceded in the current post-1.0 source by an implementation that uses the fault messages described in WSDL to map the exceptions messages from the server to the client. So there are no plans to add a "getRootException" method to AxisFault. -- Tom Jordahl Macromedia Server Development -----Original Message----- From: Robert Cauble [mailto:rcauble@;motive.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No way to get original exception from AxisFault If I have a service which throws an exception that doesn't extend AxisFault, the exception is wrapped as an AxisFault, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get the original exception. I noticed that there is an element "exceptionName" in the fault-details, but that is only set if the exception is a subclass of AxisFault, as you can see from the piece of code in AxisFault.initFromException: ... if ((target instanceof AxisFault) && (target.getClass() != AxisFault.class)) { el = XMLUtils.StringToElement(Constants.NS_URI_AXIS, "exceptionName", target.getClass().getName()); faultDetails.add(el); } ... Are there plans to add a "getRootException" method to AxisFault which returns the root exception? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Rob
