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

You can put

<%@ page errorPage="error.jsp" %>

in jour jsp/jsf page. In error.jsp, jou would have:

<%@ page isErrorPage="true" %>

isErrorPage="true" will give your page another implicit object: exception (the same way you already have request and response on jsp page). You can then extract message from exception.

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