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Re: [Jersey] Re: Jersey and runtime exception handling

From: Alexandru Popescu ☀ <the.mindstorm.mailinglist_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 12:23:54 +0300

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 1, 2010, at 7:36 PM, DaHoopster wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I like your solution but what I need is a really
>> simple catch-all to catch all runtime exceptions so that a meaningful XML
>> is
>> returned instead of the default HTML error page. I think I will have an
>> ExceptionMapper that maps to RuntimeException.
>>
>
> It may be prudent to map Throwable if you need a catch any runtime
> exceptions and any checked exceptions thrown by the application.
>
> Paul.

That's already included in my proposed solution ;-). The ugliest thing
in a web app/service is to serve the client a stupid stack trace.

:- alex