exceptiong handling

[Vikas Phonsa]

Hi This is not an axis specific issue but I would appreciate any help.   I am using axis and am trying to implement exception handling functionality for my web service but I'm running into an issue.   My Exception class is: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- public class WebException extends Exception{          private String message;       public WebException(String message){                        this.message = message; }         public String getMessage() {             return this.message;       } }   And my web services implementation class is:   public class ComSuzSiebelWebService {             private ComSuzSiebelWebServicesBean bean = null;             public void setBean(ComSuzSiebelWebServicesBean bean) throws Exception, WebException {             this.bean = bean;             if (bean.getAccountLocation() != "b"){                   WebException e = new WebException("wrong value entered for account location");                   throw e; }       }             }       And in the wsdl I defined the fault as:   <wsdl:message name="WebException">    <part name="message" type="xsd:string"/>  </wsdl:message> <wsdl:portType> <wsdl:operation name="setBean" parameterOrder="bean">          <wsdl:input message="intf:setBeanRequest" name="setBeanRequest"/>          <wsdl:output message="intf:setBeanResponse" name="setBeanResponse"/>          <wsdl:fault name="fault" message="intf:WebException"/>         </wsdl:operation>    </wsdl:portType>     But in the SOAP response message that I get back I'm getting the whole stack trace back     -        <soapenv:Fault>                   <faultcode xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">ns1:Server.userException</faultcode>                   <faultstring> com.suz.siebel.webservice.WebException: wrong value entered for account location </faultstring>                   <detail>                         <ns2:stackTrace xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/axis/"> com.suz.siebel.webservice.WebException: wrong value entered for account location at com.suz.siebel.webservice.ComSuzSiebelWebService.setBean(ComSuzSiebelWebService.java:37) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.invokeMethod(RPCProvider.java:372) at -----------------------                         </ns2:stackTrace>                   </detail>         </soapenv:Fault>           My idea behind throwing the exception was to communicate back to the client that he has sent a wrong value for the "accountLocation" field of the bean that is sent to the setBean method. I don't want the whole stack trace to be sent back to the Client.   Could you pls tell what am I doing wrong or if I am taking the wrong approach here.   Thanks in advance.   Vikas Phonsa