3.6. When Things Go Wrong
As part of invoking Web services, SOAP specifies a standard method of communicating error information to the client using the <soapenv:Fault> element and its subelements. The three pre-defined subelements are <faultCode>, <faultString>, and <detail>. You can also define your own subelements that belong to an application-specific namespace.
3.6.1. <faultCode>
The contents of <faultCode> can be any fully-qualified name that you define for your application optionally with multiple parts of this name separated by a dot. For example, I might define the following string to indicate a database error in my application: vbws:Application.Database, where vbws is a namespace prefix declared as http://schemas.learnxmlws.com/myApp/ ...
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