Why not do it with a standard servlet approach? You can specify an error handler in web.xml to handle different exception classes.
<error-page>
<exception-type>org.my.Exception1</exception-type>
<location>/handler/case1.jsp</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<exception-type>org.my.Exception2</exception-type>
<location>/handler/case2.jsp</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<exception-type>org.my.Exception3</exception-type>
<location>/handler/case3.jsp</location>
</error-page>You application would raise the corresponding exception to trigger the handler page you want to display. Or you can create a single custom exception with embedded information to a single error handler page that knows how to render different error report depending on the embedded information in the exception. Note that inside the error page, you can get back the Exception object you raised. So you have all the information you need to render the page properly.
That would guarantee to work in all Servlet 2.4 web containers.
Thanks, -- Rick
Chris Hyzer wrote:
Hello,
This works in Tomcat 4, but not 5 (5.0.25)
response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(somePage);
dispatcher.forward(request, response);
I would like to set a 500 error code, and call different pages in different circumstances. Right now it calls the default Tomcat 500 page. If I add an error page in the web.xml it will call that. But I need to programmatically decide, so I can have a 500 error go to various JSPs that communicate the problem.
Any ideas? Thanks,
Chris
ps. I tried an error page that was just text, so the error page is not triggering an error I believe... the same code works fine in tomcat 4 (.1.28 I think)
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