SOA - convert any exception to a fault exception for your clients...

Mates,

 

I have been reading an interesting article that struck my mind while designing an SOA architecture in .NET 3.5/WCF services.

 

The objective was to convert all the exception (type any) as a service host, convert them to a generic fault contract type and send it to client, so that they can process it.

 

I found an easy way by using Microsoft Application Blocks and “Fault Contract Exception Handler”, we can actually trap the exception using MABs, transform / map the fields from exception to the custom fault contract we have defined and reThrow it J

 

Read further here… http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/archive/2007/04/07/Shielding-WCF-Services-with-Exception-Handling-Application-Block-_2D00_-Part-1.aspx

 

Mehul Trivedi

trivedimehulk@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

Mehul Trivedi

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