Re: A Global Error Page (JSP or JSF)

2007-08-24 Thread samk
It works most of the time but sometimes it doesn't for no discernible reason. :( One of life's great mysteries that I am looking in to. In Response To: Hi Chris, I guess you're question pointed to Sam, right? Anyways, that's also what I think. According to the specs a *noncaught* exception

Re: A Global Error Page (JSP or JSF)

2007-08-24 Thread Gregor Schneider
Hi Chris, I guess you're question pointed to Sam, right? Anyways, that's also what I think. According to the specs a *noncaught* exception should trigger the errorpage At least here it's working as expected ;) Cheers Gregor -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526

Re: A Global Error Page (JSP or JSF)

2007-08-23 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregor, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > however, sometimes for errors (like trying to access > a null object) the page is not invoked but there's a stack trace in > the logs. Is it possible that the exception is being caught and logged before it can fall

Re: A Global Error Page (JSP or JSF)

2007-08-23 Thread samk
That's exactly what I have done. I have even tested it by having a servlet do a int i = 500/0; which causes a 500 error and a divide by zero exception which invokes the page correctly with the error and the stack trace; however, sometimes for errors (like trying to access a null object) the page

Re: A Global Error Page (JSP or JSF)

2007-08-23 Thread Gregor Schneider
try to put something like this into your web.xml (i hope that is what you've been asking for): java.lang.Throwable /errorPages/generalError.html That page should just display some message like "general error occured, please report to webmaster... ". The error itself you then sho

Re: A Global Error Page (JSP or JSF)

2007-08-23 Thread samk
I have configured a servlet to display an error message and a stack trace for 500 errors 9defined in web.xml). It works sometimes and not at others? By this i mean some 500 errors are caught and reported the others just cause an error and failure. In Response To: Does anybody have an example