Apache Axis WSDL2Java error - Missing <soap:fault> element

Question

We are integrating a third party SOAP web services in our application. The WSDL is used with SOAPUI tool, where sample requests and responses worked fine.

When we try to integrate with apache Axis 1.3, where we tried WSDL2JAVA with the WSDL. We received the following error

java.io.IOException: ERROR: Missing element inFault "serviceFault" in operation "serviceFault", in binding saveRegistration at org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.faultsFromSOAPFault(SymbolTable.java:2858) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populateBindings(SymbolTable.java:2549) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populate(SymbolTable.java:744) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.add(SymbolTable.java:543) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populate(SymbolTable.java:518) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populate(SymbolTable.java:495) at org.apache.axis.wsdl.gen.Parser$WSDLRunnable.run(Parser.java:361) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Anyone already faced this issue and solved?

Answer 1

I believe that there is a JIRA open for this one.

Description:

When you have a soap 1.2 binding with soap fault, the fault element is not correctly extracted, resulting in error

 ERROR: Missing <soap:fault> element inFault "..." in operation "...", in binding ...

Their temporary recommendation is adding a line of code and recompiling Axis1... Nahh.

Personally, I've just downloaded the wsdl file (it's an Axis 2 service and I have an Axis 1.5 client) and edited the namespace for all of the following lines from:

     <wsdl:fault name="Exception">
        <soap12:fault use="literal" name="Exception"/>
     </wsdl:fault>

to:

     <wsdl:fault name="Exception">
        <soap:fault use="literal" name="Exception"/>
     </wsdl:fault>

As suggested here.

Upgrading to Axis2, however, is the best long term solution. After resolving this issue, I have found yet more errors in the code that WSDL2JAVA has generated.