How can I detect when an Exception's been thrown globally in Java?

Question

How can I detect when an Exception has been thrown anywhere in my application?

I\'m try to auto-magically send myself an email whenever an exception is thrown anywhe

Answer 1

If you're using a web framework such as Spring then you can delegate in your web.xml to a page and then use the controller to send the email. For example:

In web.xml:

  500
  /error/500.htm

Then define /error/500.htm as a controller. You can access the exception from the parameter javax.servlet.error.exception:

Exception exception = (Exception) request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.error.exception");

If you're just running a regular Java program, then I would imagine you're stuck with public static void main(String[] args) { try { ... } catch (Exception e) {} }