SOAP Fault Vs Not SOAP Fault

Hi,

When you send a SOAP Response, you generally get a SOAP Response. Now this SOAP Response can either be a SOAP Fault or could be NOT SOAP FAULT. What SOAP FAULT means is that there is some issue(s) with the request XML you sent and it differs from the structure / format from the acceptable one as defined with schema. For example, if schema defines that following is an acceptable XML structure:
<A>
....<B>
........<C>
........</C>
....</B>
</A>

however you send the following XML structure in request, you will get a SOAP FAULT by the software that is doing that validation:

<A>
....<C>
........<B>
........</B>
....</C>
</A>

SOAP Fault is still a SOAP Response but it tells users that there is a "Fault" in the request that was sent.

Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,
Deepesh Jain