On tomcat logs I don't find any useful information why the jsp page failed to generate code and only a blank gets displayed. All I ever see for any mistake in the jsp page is the same message below: Aug 16, 2010 9:02:29 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve custom SEVERE: Exception Processing ErrorPage[exceptionType=java.lang.Exception, location=/genericError.htm] java.lang.IllegalStateException at org.apache.coyote.Response.reset(Response.java:297) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.reset(Response.java:647) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.reset(Response.java:911) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.custom(StandardHostValve.java:357) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.throwable(StandardHostValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:135) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
This is causing me great deal of pain, as I have to undo my changes letter by letter to finally detect what is wrong. Can someone please suggest how to get a more meaningful message? Thanks Kannan