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Handling Errors

The way that the DSM web service notifies you about errors that it has experienced depends greatly on the language in which you implement your client application. The DSM web service, if it experiences an error, returns a SOAP fault. In many cases, this fault is identified by your client implementation, and in the specific example of Axis-based Java applications, an Axis SOAP exception will be thrown to be caught by the client application. The fault will usually contain an error code that can be looked up in the DSM help documentation.