What happens when an unmodeled fault occurs? For example, what happens when the service above throws an exception other than sample2.fault.Fault (for instance, NullPointerException)? What happens on the client? The answer to that depends on the messaging protocol. For instance, when communicating via SOAP/HTTP, the server-side SOAP engine creates a SOAP message containing a SOAP fault (see Listing 9) with information relevant to the problem in the faultcode and faultstring fields. Because a SOAP fault is returned to the client, JAX-WS has defined an exception named SOAPFaultException. When the service throws an unmodeled fault, the client receives a SOAPFaultException.