Book marking pages problem

[Simon Good]

Given that a user maybe stupid enough to book mark a jsp page that's midway through a business process, should I be writing code to handle this kind of thing.

Actually in my instance the user would be book marking a '.do'. Obviously they'll arrive at the action and that action is going to start throwing RuntimeExceptions because everyting that it expects to see in the request, session, application etc won't be there.

What's the general approach to this kind of thing? Use ExceptionHandler and forward to a standard error page

[sreenath reddy]

Hi

can u be a bit elaborate on what u r saying

[Simon Good]

A user is using website 'X' that incorporates a number of pages that go into making up a complete business process. There is a dependancy upon, for example, page 'C' in as much as page 'A' and 'B' must have been completed. The user for some reason decides to put page C into their favourites. They complete the business process and go and away. At some point in the future they look in their favourites and choose to go to page 'C' of web site 'X'. Now obviously everything will fall a part when the request is made because they've jumped into the middle of a business process. So how does one get round this kind of thing?

I'm using struts so the user is actually booking marking a url that looks like http://www.mydomain/mywebapp/pageC.do. As soon as the user requests this URL there will be a load of RuntimeExceptions that occur because the information that should be in the session, application won't be there.

Are ExceptionHandlers of any use?

If I were using a security model this problem wouldn't exist since they wouldn't have authenticated and they'd be kicked out by the app server, but I'm not, so it does!

Hope that makes sense

[sreenath reddy]

see it is ur duty to handle that ...because in ur application action class u need to check for the attributes and should handle the scenarios like they are being null r not and even there might be some data coming for that request .so its always better to handle these things

r else u can write a global exception handler in oredr to over come the above scenarios but what happens is this will become so general .....................if u have suff time its betteru handle all the exc in ur action class itself