I just encountered an oddity which I couldn't find any information on so I figured I'd post this so other people would know.
I'm using xfire 1.2.5 as the server and I'm using axis2 1.1.1 as the client. When I was making my pom.xml I used axiom 1.2.3 (since it was the newest one) intead of the shipped 1.2.2. With the above configuration (axiom 1.2.3), when xfire throws exceptions/faults, they don't get parsed on the axis client properly. The client seems to get an error instead. If you change the axiom back to 1.2.2, the client received the exceptions/faults properly. I'm not sure if it's a bug in axiom 1.2.3 or maybe just a bug fix... what ever the case, people might want to be aware of this. (hopefully this will now show up in peoples web searches... took me a while to find the problem). The following is the error using axiom 1.2.3 and the expected exception using axiom 1.2.2 java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: getFirstSOAPText() not allowed for SOAP 1.1! at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.llom.soap11.SOAP11FaultReasonImpl.getFirstSOAPText(SOAP11FaultReasonImpl.java:59) at org.apache.axis2.AxisFault.<init>(AxisFault.java:152) at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.send(OutInAxisOperation.java:271) at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.execute(OutInAxisOperation.java:202) at com.XXX.XXX.api.soap.stubs.AuthenticateServiceStub.login(AuthenticateServiceStub.java:157) at com.XXX.XXX.FooTest.authenticate(FooTest.java:45) at com.XXX.XXX.FooTest.testMain(FooTest.java:31) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:168) v.s. what I was expecting which is below com.XXX.XXX.api.soap.stubs.AuthenticationFailedExceptionException: AuthenticationFailedExceptionException at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308) at com.XXX.XXX.api.soap.stubs.AuthenticateServiceStub.login(AuthenticateServiceStub.java:180) at com.XXX.XXX.FooTest.authenticate(FooTest.java:45) at com.XXX.XXX.FooTest.testMain(FooTest.java:31) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:168)