Bug? Create Custom SOAP Fault(SAAJ spec violation)

[John Smith]

I want to create a custom SOAP Fault filling the FaultCode,FaultString  and 
detail myself.
But it seems the Axis SOAPFault implementation forces me to use the 
AxisFault, to create SoapFault.
which is not a clean way of doing the creation.

See the code snippet

<Snippet>
public void testquick() throws Exception {
       MessageFactory msgfactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
       SOAPFactory factory = SOAPFactory.newInstance();
       SOAPMessage outputmsg = msgfactory.createMessage();
       String valueCode = "faultcode";
       String valueString = "faultString";
       SOAPFault fault =
           outputmsg.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope().getBody().addFault();
       fault.setFaultCode(valueCode);
       fault.setFaultString(valueString);
       Detail d;

       d = fault.addDetail();

       d.addDetailEntry(factory.createName("Hello"));

       if (outputmsg != null) {
           if (outputmsg.saveRequired()) {
               outputmsg.saveChanges();
           }
           outputmsg.writeTo(System.out);
       }
   }
</Snippet>
<output>
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
<soapenv:Body>
 <soapenv:Fault>
  <faultcode>soapenv:faultcode</faultcode>
  <faultstring>faultString</faultstring>
  <faultactor></faultactor>
  <detail/>  <-------------------------------Detail Missing. , added a 
Hello element.
 </soapenv:Fault>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
</output>

I think this is because of the serialization code, which only uses 
AxisFault.
No reference to current detail

<codesnippet>
public void outputImpl(SerializationContext context)
           throws IOException
   {
       SOAPConstants soapConstants = context.getMessageContext() == null ?
                                       SOAPConstants.SOAP11_CONSTANTS :
                                       
context.getMessageContext().getSOAPConstants();

       namespaceURI = soapConstants.getEnvelopeURI();
       name = Constants.ELEM_FAULT;
       context.registerPrefixForURI(prefix, 
soapConstants.getEnvelopeURI());
       context.startElement(new QName(this.getNamespaceURI(),
                                      this.getName()),
                            attributes);

       // XXX - Can fault be anything but an AxisFault here?
       if (fault instanceof AxisFault) {
</codesnippet>

Is it a Bug and violation of SAAJ Spec.

saurabh arora

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