Oh the dangers of modifying code without first testing it! I modified that from a plain 'Exception', because I thought I was being clever. Catch either the exact specific Exceptions that may be thrown (eg: NullPointer, IO) or just catch 'Exception', as I was originally doing.
-----Original Message----- From: Héctor Garcia Peris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 7:25 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Change the default error message At 07:16 11/01/02 -0600, you wrote: >You could use a JSP error page from a servlet. > >Catch any ServletException errors, and do a redirect to your JSP error page. > >Here's short snips from one of my servlets: >try { > //sending email from the servlet... >} catch (ServletException ex) { > log("Failure to send email", ex); > sendErrorRedirect(req, res, "/error.jsp", ex); >} > > >protected void sendErrorRedirect(HttpServletRequest request, >HttpServletResponse response, String errorPageURL, Throwable e) { > try { > request.setAttribute ("javax.servlet.jsp.jspException", e); > >getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(errorPageURL).f o >rward(request, response); > } catch (Exception ex) { > log(getServletName() + ".sendErrorRedirect ", ex); > } >} > > >Hope that helps... But, I can't catch ServletException. When I try to catch I get the following message: EnbreveServlet.java:102: exception javax.servlet.ServletException is never thrown in body of corresponding try statement } catch (ServletException se ) { ^ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Héctor Garcia Peris Dpto. Informática Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas S.A. (Ivie) C/ Guardia Civil, 22 esc-2 1º 46020 - Valencia (Spain) Tfno.: +34 - 963190050 / +34 - 963930816 Fax.: +34 - 963190055 / +34 - 963930856 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
