How to invoke HandleFault in Handler ???

Question

Hi
Does anyone know how to invoke handleFault(MessageContxt ctx) method in a
Handler class ?
The printlns for the other methods get printed out, so I know that the
Handler class is being called and is correctly configured.
I have tried thowing a JaxRPCException from my method call in the
Implementation class, but this simply fails.
My Handler class is as follows:
public class ServerHandler extends GenericHandler {
public ServerHandler() {
public boolean handleResponse(MessageContext context) {
System.out.println("In the response method:");
return true;
public void init(HandlerInfo hi) {
System.out.println("In the init method::");
public boolean handleRequest(MessageContext context) {
System.out.println("In the Handle request method:");
return true;
public boolean handleFault(MessageContext context) {
System.out.println("In the Handle fault method:");
//Want to do stuff like create a Soap Fault
return true;
public void destroy() { }
public QName[] getHeaders() { return null; }
Any Help would be much appreciated
Thanks

Answer 1

Basically u need to throw a SOAPFaultException in the request/response methods ....Its fairly well documented in the JAX-RPC Specification