JSF 1.x generic exception handling

Question

If I have an exception in my business layer (e.g. a SQL exception in my JDBC connection bean), how can I propagate it with a custom message to a global error.jsp pa

Answer 1

The JSF 2 now has a mechanism for handling exceptions:

http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/api/javax/faces/context/ExceptionHandler.html