<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"  xmlns:s1="http://stevideter.com/webservice">
    <xs:element name="ServiceFault" type="s1:ServiceFault"/>
    <xs:complexType name="ServiceFault">
        <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="errorCode" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
	    <xs:element name="errorDescription" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
        </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

package com.stevideter.webservice;
 
import org.springframework.ws.soap.server.endpoint.annotation.FaultCode;
import org.springframework.ws.soap.server.endpoint.annotation.SoapFault;
 
import com.stevideter.webservice.ServiceFaultDocument;
/**
 * An exception that carries a ServiceFault document for inclusion in 
 * the SoapFault
 * @author stevi.deter
 *
 */
@SoapFault(faultCode = FaultCode.SERVER,faultStringOrReason="SERVICE-ERR",locale="en")
public class ServiceFaultException extends Exception {
 
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	private ServiceFaultDocument faultMessage;
 
	public ServiceFaultException() {
		super("ServiceFaultException");
	}
 
	public ServiceFaultException(String s) {
		super(s);
	}
 
	public ServiceFaultException(String s, Throwable ex) {
		super(s, ex);
	}
 
	public ServiceFaultException(String s, Throwable ex, ServiceFaultDocument msg) {
		super(s,ex);
		setFaultMessage(msg);
 
	}
 
	public void setFaultMessage(ServiceFaultDocument msg) {
		faultMessage = msg;
	}
 
	public ServiceFaultDocument getFaultMessage() {
		return faultMessage;
	}
 
}

package com.stevideter.webservice.soap.server.endpoint;
 
import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError;
 
import org.springframework.ws.soap.SoapFault;
import org.springframework.ws.soap.SoapFaultDetail;
import org.springframework.ws.soap.server.endpoint.SoapFaultMappingExceptionResolver;
import org.springframework.xml.transform.StringSource;
 
import com.stevideter.webservice.ServiceFaultException;
import com.stevideter.webservice.ServiceFaultDocument;
 
public class DetailSoapFaultDefinitionExceptionResolver extends
		SoapFaultMappingExceptionResolver {
 
	@Override
	protected void customizeFault(Object endpoint, Exception ex, SoapFault fault) {
		ServiceFaultException msg = null;
		if (ex instanceof ServiceFaultException) {
			msg = (ServiceFaultException) ex;
		} else {
			msg = createFaultMessage(ex);
		}
		addServiceFaultDetail(msg, fault);
	}
 
	private void addServiceFaultDetail(ServiceFaultException msg, SoapFault fault)
			throws TransformerFactoryConfigurationError {
		Transformer trn;
		try {
			trn = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
			SoapFaultDetail faultDetail = fault.addFaultDetail();
			Result result = faultDetail.getResult();
			ServiceFaultDocument doc = msg.getFaultMessage();
			if (doc == null) {
				logger.error("ServiceFaultException thrown with no serviceFaultDocument!",msg);
			} else {
				trn.transform(new StringSource(doc.toString()), result);
			}
		} catch (TransformerException e) {
			logger.error("problem with XML transform: ", e);
		}
	}
 
	private ServiceFaultException createFaultMessage(Exception e) {
		ServiceFaultDocument faultDocument = ServiceFaultDocument.Factory.newInstance();
		ServiceFault fault = faultDocument.addNewServiceFault();
		fault.setErrorCode("SERVICE-ERR");
		fault.setErrorDescription(e.getMessage());
		ServiceFaultException faultMsg = new ServiceFaultException(e.getMessage(),e,faultDocument);
		return faultMsg;
	}
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">
<!-- rest of web service bean def's elided -->
 
    <bean id="exceptionResolver"
	        class="com.stevideter.webservice.soap.server.endpoint.DetailSoapFaultDefinitionExceptionResolver">
        <property name="defaultFault" value="SERVER"/>
        <property name="exceptionMappings">
            <value>
	    com.stevideter.webservice.ServiceFaultException=SERVER,FaultMsg
            </value>
	</property>
    </bean>
</beans>

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <SOAP-ENV:Header/>
   <SOAP-ENV:Body>
      <SOAP-ENV:Fault>
         <faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Server</faultcode>
         <faultstring xml:lang="en">FaultMsg</faultstring>
         <detail>
            <ServiceFault xmlns="http://stevideter.com/webservice">
               <errorCode xmlns="">SERVICE-ERR</errorCode>
               <errorDescription xmlns="">you can't do that!</errorDescription>
            </ServiceFault>
         </detail>
      </SOAP-ENV:Fault>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>