What does: "Fault occurred while processing" in the client mean? and how do you reveal the real exception?
I have this CXF client which sometimes throws normal exceptions but some of the other times it throws me a "Fault occurred while processing", well, what does that mean? When you get back a "Fault occurred while processing" it means that a web service threw an unchecked exception. The CXF framework catches it and puts together a fault message which it sends back to the client. The client’s stack trace at that point is pretty-much irrelevant . There may be a way to get CXF to log the server stack trace, but I haven’t found it yet (feel free to comment on the post if you found one). There may also be a way to stick a handler into the flow to get the exception before constructing the fault message, but I haven’t found that yet either (ditto). If a checked-exception is thrown, then the exception – or at least its message – gets sent back to the client where it’s reconstructed and rethrown to be caught by the client. Debugging a problem like this, o