Create a web service from java bean and map exceptions to SOAP faults

Question

Hi,
We have to expose our Session stateless EJB3 as web services. I've tried to use annotations and jdev wizard "java bean to web service" and it works fine.
Our problem now is that our methods can throw a business exception that contains a list of error message strings to be presented on the client.
I did not find any way to use annotations to make it build a wsdl with soap fault mapped to our exception class. Neither I could to make the wizard to create wsdl with faults.
As we are exposing already designed and implemented classes as web services, I think the bottom-top (java->wsdl) approach is better that top->botton (wsdl->java). Therefore, I'm looking for a possibility to generate the web services from the java beans and have the exception be mapped to a soap fault message.
We are using jdev 10.1.3.1 and OAS 10.1.3.1., is there a way to map exceptions to soap faults using bottom->top approach?
thank you

Answer 1

A couple of links that may be of help:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=nbj2ee&msgNo=1218
My last question concerning web services:
I have already written a session bean and I'd like to add some methods
as a web service to it, how do I do that?
Or I can only create another bean for a webservice and cannot modify the
original one?You might create web service with existing sources and select you bean. New web services with appropriate lookup method will be generated.
All web service method, that will be exposed in web service, you
should add itself (Pop-up menu Web Service -> Add operation)
http://usersguide.netbeans.org/files/documents/40/73/Chapter9-WebServices.pdf