How can i handle exception gracefully when using servlets. I don't want user to see Internal server error or any kind of Null pointer exception from the stacktrace, but a very little of error message. if any link, which gives this information, please mention the link. thanks in advance.
just wrap your whole thing up try { .... all your servlet code.... }catch (Exception e) { out.println("<html><body>Sorry an error occurred</body></html>"); // also log the error for your own use! }
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hmmm..... According to the servlet specification, there are 2 ways of handling exceptions: Declarative and programmatically. 1- Declarative This is the cleanest one, you specify the error/mapping in your web.xml. Have a look at the error-page element in web.xml. As you can see in servlets, doXXX() methods throw IOException, ServletException. This means that you can only throw these or subclasses of these exceptions. If you have your own exception, you have to wrap them in ServletException, something like this: ... catch (yourException e) { throw new ServletException("blah", e) } another way to avoid this is (wrapping them in ServletException), when you create your exception, you can extend IOException, ServletException, or RuntimeException. 1- Programmatically you catch the exception and call sendError() or setStatus(). sendError trigges the container to generate an error page, where as setStatus() doesn't. Have a look at these 2 methods in the servlet specification. hope it helps
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