Wow, you are my hero! I've always missed that from the Weblogic days! I for one would love to see this added.
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM: fzammetti Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, October 11, 2005 1:15 pm, Tim Fennell said: > Apologies in advance for cross-posting this, but I sent this email > out to the tomcat-dev list a couple of days ago and have received no > replies at all... I think this is quite a useful feature, and I'm > wondering how best to go about contributing it. > Thanks > > -Tim Fennell > http://stripes.mc4j.org > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Tim Fennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: October 9, 2005 5:50:11 PM EDT >> To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org >> Subject: More helpful reporting of exceptions in JSPs >> Reply-To: "Tomcat Developers List" <tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I'll apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to post this, >> or if this has been covered before. I had a good read through the >> Tomcat docs and faqs, searched the bug database, and googled around >> on the topic, but could not really find anything. >> >> I've been using Tomcat for a while, and in general have found it as >> good a servlet/JSP container as any I've used. With one exception >> (no pun intended). A long time ago I started out using WebLogic, >> and the one thing that I loved about WebLogic, that is missing from >> Tomcat, is that when an Exception occurred in a JSP it would tell >> you what line number *in the JSP* generated the exception, and show >> you a snippet of code around the offending line. >> >> For quite a while I'd figured that the way Tomcat was built >> prevented this from being easy/possible, but I didn't look. Well, >> I finally got around to looking, and it only took me a couple of >> hours to implement it. Which makes me wonder if there is some >> other reason that this isn't done in Tomcat/Jasper? >> >> At any rate, I have code that will do this now, and I think it'd be >> a great productivity boost for anyone else developing JSPs on >> Tomcat. It amounts to small patches to two files. The first is >> org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler to make it hang on to the parse >> tree (pageNodes) if in development mode, and a getter to make this >> accessible. The second is to >> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper to do the grunt work of >> mapping a stack frame from the exception back to the line in the >> JSP that it came from. >> >> It's all coded up to function only when in development mode, and is >> reasonably well commented. Would any of the committers be >> interested in taking a look at this if I put together a patch and >> posted it here? Cheers, >> >> -Tim Fennell >> http://stripes.mc4j.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
