OWSM Custom Step SOAPMessage Class Problem

I have SOA Suite installed on several different machines. All have BPEL, ESB, and OWSM installed. I have a BPEL process that calls a web service hosted on a remote machine that uses a OWSM client agent to do "security stuff". I have a custom OWSM step that does the "security stuff". On one machine everything works as it should. On another machine, I am getting the following error in the execute() method of my custom step implementation:
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: getSOAPBody must be overridden by all subclasses of SOAPMessage:
at my.custom.step.CustomStep(CustomStep:83)
at com.cfluent.pipelineengine.container.DefaultPipeline.execute(DefaultPipeline.java:124)
at com.cfluent.pipelineengine.container.DefaultPipeline.execute(DefaultPipeline.java:97)
at com.cfluent.pipelineengine.container.DefaultPolicy$DeferredPipeline.execute(DefaultPolicy:63)
at com.cfluent.pipelineengine.container.DefaultPolicy$DeferredPipeline.access$300(DefaultPolicy:18)
<snipped>
Here's the snippet of code from the execute() method of the custom step:
SOAPMessage soapMsg = messageContext.getRequestMessage();
if ( soapMsg.getSOAPBody().hasFault()) // !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's where the error is occurring
When I log out soapMsg.getClass().getName() I get "org.apache.axis.Message".
Now, when I execute the same piece of code on another machine, it works fine and the class for SOAPMessage
is oracle.j2ee.ws.saaj.soap.soap12.Message12.
Any idea why the class difference? Is there some SOAPFactory configuration value somewhere?
Thanks in advance.

mrmora,
After opening a Service Request and communicating with one of Oracle's reps, I was told that the HttpServletRequest (and I guess other client info) is never available for either the Server Agent or Client Agent.
I created a Gateway, instead, and and I'm now getting the HttpServletRequest and the client's IP. Both of these codes now work:
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)messageContext.getProperty("javax.servlet.request");
String clientIP = httpSrvltRqst.getRemoteHost();
=====
String clientIP = ((MessageContext)messageContext).getRemoteAddr();
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