I have a SOAP service, the request and responses work as expected with good

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I have a SOAP service, the request and responses work as expected with good

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I have a SOAP service, the request and responses work as expected with good input, if I specify bad input for an XML element

in request body:

...
<ns:myIntegerElement>asdf</ns:myIntegerElement>
...

my exception resolver is invoked, this resolver is just an implementation of the exception resolver, so it doesn’t have exception mappings, just a few System.out’s in the abstract method

<bean id="exceptionResolver" class="com.mycompany.ws.MyExceptionResolver">

however, if I send a request that looks more like this:

...
    <ns:myIntegSOMETHINGGOTTOTALLYMESSUP!!!ent>asdf</ns:myIntegerElement>
...

my resolver isn’t executed at all

I setup log4j to have a root debug level and see this output:

2010-08-09 10:30:01,900
[Thread:http-8080-2] DEBUG
[org.springframework.ws.transport.http.WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter]
– Accepting incoming [org.springframework.ws.transport.http.HttpServletConnection@c46dcf]
to
[http://localhost:8080/myws/MyWebServices/%5D
ERROR: ‘The element type
“ns:MESSEDUPELEMENT” must be terminated by
the matching end-tag
“”.’ 2010-08-09
10:30:01,920 [Thread:http-8080-2]
DEBUG
[org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet]
– Could not complete request org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageException:
Could not access envelope: Unable to
create envelope from given source: ;
nested exception is
com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl:
Unable to create envelope from given
source:
at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.support.SaajUtils.getSaajVersion(SaajUtils.java:162)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessage.getImplementation(SaajSoapMessage.java:251)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessage.(SaajSoapMessage.java:84)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessage.(SaajSoapMessage.java:70)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory.createWebServiceMessage(SaajSoapMessageFactory.java:168)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.AbstractWebServiceConnection.receive(AbstractWebServiceConnection.java:90)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.support.WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.handleConnection(WebServiceMessageReceiverObjectSupport.java:86)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.handle(WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter.java:57)
at org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet.doService(MessageDispatcherServlet.java:230)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:571)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:511)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:859)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1555)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by:
com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl:
Unable to create envelope from given
source:
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.EnvelopeFactory.createEnvelope(EnvelopeFactory.java:114)
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.ver1_1.SOAPPart1_1Impl.createEnvelopeFromSource(SOAPPart1_1Impl.java:70)
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.SOAPPartImpl.getEnvelope(SOAPPartImpl.java:122)
at org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.support.SaajUtils.getSaajVersion(SaajUtils.java:159)
… 24 more Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The
element type “smm:smm-aid” must be
terminated by the matching end-tag
“”.
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:719)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:313)
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.util.transform.EfficientStreamingTransformer.transform(EfficientStreamingTransformer.java:393)
at com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.EnvelopeFactory.createEnvelope(EnvelopeFactory.java:102)
… 27 more Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The
element type “smm:smm-aid” must be
terminated by the matching end-tag
“”.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1231)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
at org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLFilterImpl.parse(XMLFilterImpl.java:333)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transformIdentity(TransformerImpl.java:636)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:707)
… 30 more

It appears that spring is missing a possible exception here, and not wrapping it, but such a basic error condition not being caught seems unlikely to me. Can anyone help me to find the root of this issue?

I’ll include web.xml and servlet.xml too:

web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>transformWsdlLocations</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

servlet context:

<context:component-scan base-package="com.mycomp.proj.ws" />
    <bean id="smmService" class="com.mycomp.proj.ws.SMMRequestHandlingServiceStubImpl"/>

    <bean class="org.springframework.ws.server.endpoint.mapping.PayloadRootAnnotationMethodEndpointMapping"/>
    <bean class="org.springframework.ws.server.endpoint.adapter.MarshallingMethodEndpointAdapter">
        <constructor-arg ref="marshaller"/>
    </bean>
    <bean id="marshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.castor.CastorMarshaller">
        <property name="mappingLocations">
            <list>
                <value>classpath:mapping.xml</value>
                <value>classpath:hoursOfOperationMapping.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="smmws" class="org.springframework.ws.wsdl.wsdl11.DefaultWsdl11Definition">
        <property name="schema" ref="schema" />
        <property name="portTypeName" value="SMM" />
        <property name="locationUri" value="/SMMWebServices/"/>
        <property name="targetNamespace" value="http://mycomp.proj.com" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="exceptionResolver" class="com.wdp.smm.ws.MyExceptionResolver"/>

    <bean id="schema" class="org.springframework.xml.xsd.SimpleXsdSchema">
        <property name="xsd" value="/WEB-INF/ws.xsd" />
    </bean>

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-16T10:44:27+00:00

I’ve looked more closely at your question and I think that I know what’s happening. You exception handler is not called because it is in the higher level in the soap processing. You see, WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter tries to decode the incoming string to an XML before sending it to the marshaller to be processed. Since the XML is invalid the call fails. And since WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter does not support an exception handler, it just rethrows the exception “SaajSoapMessageException”.

Now what you can do is create a new class that extends WebServiceMessageReceiverHandlerAdapter, but that also wraps handleConnection() in a try/catch that uses your exception handler when a exception is throw.

By the way, when debugging this kind of problem my approach is to output both method name and line number in log4j. As well as downloading the Spring sources.

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