This is more of a note to self, but I'd figured I'd share with everyone. We need to revisit our exception classes, the api has a very rich set of exceptions that can be useful by other parts of the code. Most folks don't want to use them because they live in an xmlrpc package, and we could probably move them to a more common location. Another reason is not all of the api exceptions are localized (usually the older ones). Another thing I noticed was that the exceptions that are localized none of them use the FaultExceptions constructor which accepts the localized parameters: public FaultException(int error, String lbl, String messageId, Object [] args) { super(LocalizationService.getInstance().getMessage(messageId, args)); this.errorCode = error; this.label = lbl; } We seem to do it the hardway :) ... super(1062, "Invalid Arch" , LocalizationService.getInstance(). getMessage("api.system.invalidarch", new Object [] {arch})); This could've been easily written as: super(1062, "Invalid Arch", "api.system.invalidarch", new Object [] {arch})); Honestly, I would do away with the messageid altogether and use the exception label as the messageid. So the ctor would change to: super(1062, "Invalid Arch", new Object [] {arch})); And in FaultException (top example) it would change to this: public FaultException(int error, String lbl, Object [] args) { super(LocalizationService.getInstance().getMessage(lbl, args)); this.errorCode = error; this.label = lbl; }