Ah, thank you for that observation.
I am a little confused as to how it happened that way, because this wsdl and the service itself were both created using axis2's java2wsdl utility. I will play around with switches to see if I can get the responses to match the namespaces. -Phil According the wsdl the namespace of the erroMessage element is http://webservices.basic.wrapper.authentisec.fod.com/xsd. but at the response it is http://webservices.basic.wrapper.authentisec.fod.com <http://webservices.basic.wrapper.authentisec.fod.com/> thanks, Amila.