On my Axis 1.4 webservice this exception is thrown when an incoming message is corrupted.
WARN ;2010-07-15 14:45:38,232;org.apache.axis.attachments.AttachmentsImpl;;Exception: AxisFault faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException faultSubcode: faultString: javax.mail.MessagingException: Error in input stream; nested exception is: java.io.IOException: End of stream encountered before final boundary marker. faultActor: faultNode: faultDetail: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:javax.mail.MessagingException: Error in input stream; nested exception is: java.io.IOException: End of stream encountered before final boundary marker. at javax.mail.internet.InternetHeaders.load(InternetHeaders.java:361) at javax.mail.internet.InternetHeaders.<init>(InternetHeaders.java:310) at org.apache.axis.attachments.MultiPartRelatedInputStream.readTillFound(MultiPartRelatedInputStream.java:499) at org.apache.axis.attachments.MultiPartRelatedInputStream.readAll(MultiPartRelatedInputStream.java:433) at org.apache.axis.attachments.MultiPartRelatedInputStream.getAttachments(MultiPartRelatedInputStream.java:439) at org.apache.axis.attachments.AttachmentsImpl.mergeinAttachments(AttachmentsImpl.java:171) at org.apache.axis.attachments.AttachmentsImpl.getAttachmentCount(AttachmentsImpl.java:550) at org.apache.axis.Message.getAttachments(Message.java:689) at prg.xft.in.attachments.ExtractAttachments.extract(ExtractAttachments.java:45) at prg.xft.ib.In.inbound(In.java:79) at prg.xft.ib.In.<init>(In.java:54) at prg.skel.jiz.ServiceImpl.inbound(ServiceImpl.java:24) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.invokeMethod(RPCProvider.java:397) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider.java:186) at org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:323) at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118) at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83) at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.SOAPService.invoke(SOAPService.java:454) at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:281) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:699) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637) at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:327) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:190) at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:769) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:698) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:891) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:690) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.io.IOException: End of stream encountered before final boundary marker. at org.apache.axis.attachments.BoundaryDelimitedStream.read(BoundaryDelimitedStream.java:308) at org.apache.axis.attachments.BoundaryDelimitedStream.read(BoundaryDelimitedStream.java:358) at org.apache.axis.attachments.BoundaryDelimitedStream.read(BoundaryDelimitedStream.java:370) at com.sun.mail.util.LineInputStream.readLine(LineInputStream.java:84) at javax.mail.internet.InternetHeaders.load(InternetHeaders.java:338) ... 42 more I tried to catch the exception multiple times on different places in my source code, but I can not catch it. The stacktrace only appears in my logs.