Howdy,
The general answer for cases like this is wrap the exception in a
RuntimeException or it's subclass. So,
... contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
try {
...
} catch (Exception e) {
// Make tomcat mark this context as unavailable
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sasha Borodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:52 PM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: ServletContextListener fails - how to make app unavailable?
>
>I've tried searching for this issue in the tomcat-user archives; I
found
>general theory but not how to implement it. Specifically:
>
>If there's a problem within contextIntitialized(), I would want the app
to
>return HTTP 500 or something. But the ServletContextListener interface
>does
>not declare any Exceptions thrown. Thus I can't declare any in my
>subclass.
>Yet if I try to just catch an Exception, log, and rethrow a general
>ServletException, I can't compile cause ("must handle or declare...").
>
>So how do I notify Tomcat that there's a problem, and that the context
>should be made unavailable?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Sasha
>
>
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