Question

I am working on a web service. Sometimes during my testing exceptions are thrown and displayed on the browser page. I am not sure why even the code that “could” throw an exception is within the try-catch block, the exception is still printed in the browser.

I certainly can create exception handler with Spring or exception mapper (with JBoss) but still there are exceptions that could be thrown that are not mapped, and I don’t want this to be printed on the browser.

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

in your web.xml you can define error pages like this

<error-page>
    <error-code>404</error-code>
    <location>/WEB-INF/jsp/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>

<error-page>
    <error-code>403</error-code>
    <location>/WEB_INF/jsp/accessDenied.jsp</location>
</error-page>

and so on… you can have for any other error code especially error 500 witch i think is more suitable for your case