Servlets Java

package com.ack.web.servlet;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
/**
* Map the location of the servlet to handle at error
* with the supplied status code
*

...

javax.servlet.ServletException
/servlet/com.ack.web.servlet.ServletExceptionHandler


*/
public class ServletExceptionHandler extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet( HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res )
throws ServletException, IOException {
res.setContentType( "text/html" );
PrintWriter pw = res.getWriter();
String exceptionType = getRequestAttribute( req,
"javax.servlet.error.exception_type",
"status code not supplied" );
String errorMsg = getRequestAttribute( req,
"javax.servlet.error.message",
"error msg not supplied" );
// exception attribute available as of servlet 2.3 API
Object exception = req.getAttribute( "javax.servlet.error.exception" );
pw.println( "

Custom Exception Handler

" );
pw.println( "

Exception type: " + exceptionType + "

" );
pw.println( "

Exception Message: " + errorMsg + "

" );
pw.println( "

Problem accessing: " + req.getRequestURI() + "

" );
// if we have the exception dump it out to the page
if( exception != null ) {
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = null;
try {
pw.println( "


" );
bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter( bos, true );
( (Exception) exception ).printStackTrace( writer );
pw.println( bos.toString() );
}
finally {
pw.println( "
" );
if( bos != null ) bos.close();
}
}
// output date and time of error
pw.println( "


" );
pw.println( new java.util.Date( System.currentTimeMillis() ) );
}
private String getRequestAttribute( HttpServletRequest req,
String name,
String defaultValue ) {
Object value = req.getAttribute( name );
return ( value != null ) ? value.toString() : defaultValue;
}
}