BEA Soap Faults and differentiating them from Normal Soap Faults

Question

Hi,
I've written a webservice client that interfaces with an external soap service. The external soap service generates custom soap exceptions that I am already handling by catching remote exception and then getting the cause from this remote exception to obtain the soap fault.
However, I notice if for example the external webservice is down I get a BEA soap fault returned which is a different format to the faults returned from the external service
IS there a way to easily identify a BEA generated fault from a standard soap fault without interoggating the soap fault manually?

Answer 1

Added the charset to web-service.xml
<web-services xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<handler-chains>
<handler-chain name="SOAPHandler">
<handler class-name="WebServiceHandler"/>
</handler-chain>
</handler-chains>
<web-service name="xxx"
uri="/uri"
targetNamespace="http://xxxx"
style="rpc"
ignoreAuthHeader="true"
exposeWSDL="true"
charset="UTF-8">
<components>
<java-class name="mainClass"
class-name="WebService">
</java-class>
</components>
<operations>
<operation method="x"
component="mainClass" handler-chain="SOAPHandler">
<params>
<param name="data" class-name="java.lang.String" style="in" type="xsd:string"/>
<return-param name="result" class-name="java.lang.String" type="xsd:string"/>
</params>
</operation>
</operations>
</web-service>
</web-services>
But it did not help.
This is beas issue probably because, everything works when I invoke service from some other system.
Any more ideas???