Hi; On my site whenever a part of a pipeline aggregation fails, cocoon will silently return without reporting an error. In the following i explain, how i solved this problem at least partially. I am unshure, if i should send a patch, so i follow the suggestions in your contrib document and post this to the mailing list.
Here we go: environmental info: I am using cocoon-2.0.3 + tomcat-4.1.12 I could by now track down the problem to org.apache.cocoon.servlet.CocoonServlet.java:service() In the following peace of code the problem is marked by "<== bad". The code appears several times within the catch blocks in method service(...): ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ if (manageExceptions) { res.reset(); <== bad SimpleNotifyingBean n = new SimpleNotifyingBean(this); . . . ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ When processing an aggregation, res is filled as the parts get processed. Hence, if an error occurs in the middle of production, res.reset() fails. But unfortunately not only that. It also terminates the current request processing silently. During my further investigation i found, that the response processing is managed by an HttpEnvironment instance. This class already offers the method tryResetResponse() which correctly checks, if the response output stream already is committed, or not. Only in the latter case the output stream is really reset. The method returns true, if it succeeds. This lead me to modify the line marked above as follows: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ if (manageExceptions) { env.tryResetResponse(); <== better SimpleNotifyingBean n = new SimpleNotifyingBean(this); . . . ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (i had to move the declaration of env to another place though) When i now request an erroneous page, the result is: 1.) I can see all parts, that have been processed so far on the screen (same behaviour as before). 2.) Additionally I see the error infos positioned at the bottom of the page. This behaviour helps getting aware of error conditions. regards, hussayn -- Dr. Hussayn Dabbous SAXESS Software Design GmbH Neuenhöfer Allee 125 50935 Köln Telefon: +49-221-56011-0 Fax: +49-221-56011-20 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]