Query with pear SOAP and SOAP_Fault

Hello guys, I have a query with pear soap and SOAP_Fault, I wonder if anyone has an answer... As a bit of background, I am using pear SOAP 0.8RC3 beta under php-4.3.4-1.1. I have a soap server process that works fine ! I have got a client that connects to it fine also. I have adopted the technique of using the dispatch_map so that a wsdl is created automagically: $this->__dispatch_map['request'] = array( 'in' => array('input' => 'string'), 'out' => array('return string' => 'string'), ); As you can see I have defined in and out parameters as strings. Now, I have a customer connecting to this server using a Java client. He has built his client based on my wsdl. He wants me to return errors as soap faults. I am doing it like this: $fault = new SOAP_Fault('Does not exist', '99'); return $fault->message(); The trouble is that he is seeing the SOAP fault data, but it is wrapped up in a string, this is what he describes: "In case of error I expect your service to return something like this: <http> <soap:fault/> </http> But actually your service is returning something like this: <http> <soap:return> &lt;soap:fault/gt&; </soap:return> </http> The SOAP Fault is actually "masked" inside a normal result. In my opinion you have do make a little change in your WSDL to define the possible returned faults." So my question is: How do I return a soap fault in the way he describes ? Can I define a "fault" out in my dispatch map -> wsdl ? Hopefully you can help me ! Chris...