[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Error handling with error pages

Hi there, my goal is to add a custom error page to an existing seam app which should display both the (technical) description of the error with <h:messages> and a short sentence that can be understand by a normal user (e.g. "connection to database failed. please try again later") and depends on what kind of error occured, of course. This should be achived with a singe error page. I am not able to change the code of the app, so I can not raise custom exceptions in my beans. Therefore, I started with an entry in exceptions.xml, which redirects two exemplary kinds of errors that occur before render phase to my generic error page. | <exception class="java.lang.RuntimeException"> | <redirect view-id="/genericError.xhtml"> | </redirect> | </exception> | <exception class="javax.servlet.ServletException"> | <redirect view-id="/genericError.xhtml"></redirect> | </exception>--> | Well, now I can access the technical error message in genericError.xhtml with <h:messages globalOnly="true" styleClass="message" /> But how can I detect because of which of the two exceptions the error page was displayed, so that I can show the correct textual message? Is there something like a global error object? Or can I pass the desired message or the kind of exception to my genericError.xhtml in some way? I tried <param ..> but I did not get it to work. Thanks in advance, Frank View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4126137#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...