Stderr log

Question

I guess I have a configuration and a design issue. I need to make the stderr log available to the user. So in case of an error they
can cut and paste the error information in the log and send it to us. It is a quick way of getting the error message.
I found this by googling it:
http://naive-amseth.blogspot.com/2010/06/opening-pdf-txt-or-doc-files-in-adf.html
But this says the log has to be in the public html directory. when we deploy t o devtest and production we are not able
to access the directories. They are deployed as ear files.
How do I configure weblogic to write to a separate text file when there is an error.(Is it stderr?) then make it available as
a txt file to the user?

Answer 1

Why don't you implement an error handler page where you print the stack trace of the exception to the page?
This way the user sees the actual error and does not have to scan through a log file.
Something like this on a page:
                <af:outputText value="#{ShowErrrorBean.stacktrace}"
                               rendered="true" id="ot1"/>and the code of the ShowErrrorBean to print the stack trace onto the page...
    public String getStacktrace()
        if (cc.getCurrentViewPort().getExceptionData() != null)
            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
            PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
            Exception e = cc.getCurrentViewPort().getExceptionData();
            e.printStackTrace(pw);
            this.executeRollback();
            processException(e);
            cc.getCurrentViewPort().clearException();
            return sw.toString();
        return null;
    }Timo