When a WebService endpoint is deployed at, say for example, http://localhost:8080/demo-orders/OrderService and when one access this URL without a ?WSDL prefix a simple Fault is thrown without any much detail. And in the server side a NullPointerException is thrown. It would be nice to behave similar to what JBossWS does when POJO endpoints are deployed, which is throw appropriate error message without a NPE at server side.