Please use the "camel-soap-proxy" quickstart and make these changes: 1.) replace the file "route.xml" with the the one provided below 2.) Build the changed quickstart. Deploy ONLY the switchyard-camel-soap-proxy deployable (in soap-proxy/target) so the external call will fail. We are interested in watching the exception. 3) Invoke the SOAP proxy, note the result. 4.) Do this with Fuse on EAP 6.2.1 and with Fuse 6.3 We will find that 6.2.1 shows the 'doCatch' is invoked: org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doDefaultLogging(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:377)^M 2016-11-17 14:10:49.408 RK3983nodeesb ERROR   camel-soap-proxy http-0.0.0.0:8080-1 EXCEPTION thrown: SWITCHYARD035429: Unexpected exception handling SOAP Message org.slf4j.helpers.MarkerIgnoringBase.error(MarkerIgnoringBase.java:145)^M 2016-11-17 14:10:49.410 RK3983nodeesb INFO   camel-soap-proxy http-0.0.0.0:8080-1 FINALLY BLOACK called! org.slf4j.helpers.MarkerIgnoringBase.info(MarkerIgnoringBase.java:96)^M while the 6.3 doCatch() is not invoked: org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doDefaultLogging(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:377)^M 2016-11-17 14:07:58.099 RK3983nodeesb INFO   camel-soap-proxy http-0.0.0.0:8080-1 FINALLY BLOACK called! org.apache.camel.util.CamelLogger.log(CamelLogger.java:159)^M Use the following route.xml: ------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <routes xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"> <route> <from uri="switchyard://ProxyService"/> <doTry id="_doTry1"> <to uri="switchyard://ReverseService?operationName=reverse"/> <doCatch id="_doCatch1"> <exception>java.lang.Exception</exception> <handled> <constant>false</constant> </handled> <log id="route-createpw-jms-request_log10" logName="camel-soap-proxy" loggingLevel="ERROR" message="EXCEPTION thrown: ${exception.message}"/> </doCatch> <doFinally id="_doFinally1"> <log id="route-createpw-jms-request_log20" logName="camel-soap-proxy" message="FINALLY BLOACK called!"/> </doFinally> </doTry> </route> </routes>