Displaying information about the exception in a custom 500 error jsp page

Question

I would like :

• to customize my 500 error page and
• log the exception details that caused the 500,

is there a way to get this info? how do I reference it?

Answer 1

Specify error page in web.xml like this

<error-page>
        <error-code>500</error-code>
        <location>/error500.jsp</location>
    </error-page>

Then create error500.jsp as error page, use exception object to display the stacktrace like this.

<%@ page isErrorPage="true" %>
<% exception.printStackTrace(response.getWriter()); %>