JSP page display problem

[bharat nagpal]

I’m migrating an existing application’s authentication from Database to container managed authentication. There is a case where I need to catch the exception and display an error page. I get a 404 when exception is caught, instead of getting jsp page.
When I open a browser window and try to access that error page using http://localhost/common/abc/myError.jsp
The page is shown.
"Now" If I go to my application and replicate that error condition, exception is caught and also the error page is displayed. I can’t understand why, first time, I don’t get error page???

any clue?

[Shankar Narayana]

I dont have any clue, but try to find out from where is the error being generated, is it from the webserver(if any) or the servlet container.

[bharat nagpal]

There is no error message anywhere. The only thing I'm able to see in logs is 404 (in access.log). and When I debug the code it goes to the line where the request Forward is executed with all valid values.
The code works fine even for the first time, if I remove container authentication.

[bharat nagpal]

To be precise, I'm not able to see the jsp page, when I try to fwd. the request. it's not getting compiled. But when I access it directly through browser, it gets compiled and after that the above Fwd. stuff works fine.

-Bharat