Servlet Error Page

[Tom McAmmond]

Hi there,

As a result of this wonderful Head First JSP & Servlets book, I can configure error.jsp pages for my application and for individual jsp's. However, I would like to know if there's a way to configure an error jsp page for a servlet as well.

I have a servlet gets info from a db and forwards to a jsp for the view. But sometimes the code in the servlet throws an exception, and I want to direct users to a specific error page rather than an application catch-all. How should I do that?

Thanks!

Tom

[Bear Bibeault]

Declare a general error page or pages (you can declare different pages for different types of errors) in the web.xml file. This will handle all errors not otherwise handled so that you do not need to declare anything for each indovidual JSP or servlet.

[Tom McAmmond]

Ah... but I *want* to have a special error page for a couple of my servlets. Say I have 100 servlets, but 5 of them need an error page that's different than the pages for the other 95 servlets. Can I do that?

[Ben Souther]

In your servlets, you can catch an exception and forward to any page you like.