Here's the steps I did to test this, which worked: 1. modify struts-config.xml for an exception handler:
<global-exceptions> <exception type="java.lang.Exception" path="/Error_Page.jsp" key="exception.servletexception" scope="request"/> </global-exceptions> 2. Force an exception in some action: try { int i = 1/ 0; } catch ( Exception ex ) { throw new ServletException("general failure error reading drive C"); } 3. Add entry to resources file: project1.ApplicationResources.properties as defined by struts-config.xml: <message-resources parameter="project1.ApplicationResources"/> exception.servletexception=A catastrophic error occurred. 4. Defined an error page: Error_Page.jsp: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <%@ taglib prefix="html" uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" %> <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252" isErrorPage="true" %> <%@ page import="org.apache.struts.Globals" %> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"/> <title>Error_Page</title> </head> <body> <html:errors/> <br/> <% // read the Struts exception that is placed here by the default Struts Exception handler. Exception e2 = (Exception) request.getAttribute( Globals.EXCEPTION_KEY ); if ( e2 != null ) { // out.println( e2.getLocalizedMessage() ); e2.printStackTrace(new java.io.PrintWriter(out)); } %> </body> </html> 5. test application: Validation Error You must correct the following error(s) before proceeding: A catastrophic error occurred. javax.servlet.ServletException: general failure error reading drive C at struts.apache.org.actions.DependentListAction.refreshList(DependentListAction.java:51) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.dispatchMethod(DispatchAction.java:270) at org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.execute(DispatchAction.java:187) at org.apache.struts.actions.LookupDispatchAction.execute(LookupDispatchAction.java:150) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:236) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:434) [rest of stack trace remove] -----Original Message----- From: Andy.de [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:05 AM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: RE: global exceptions, key? Givler, Eric wrote: > > I'm pretty sure the error.message1 key which is looked up in the resource > file can be displayed in the resulting jsp with: > <html:errors/> > > Hi Eric, thats what i tried but it don't work Regards, Andy -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/global-exceptions%2C-key--tf2343367.html#a6541281 Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]