Why cannot my servlet catch any errors?

Question

my default-err or default-out file does not catch any erro when i run my servlet my servet is as below. i am using Jrun, on a win 2000 server.
public void makeConnection(){
try{
String url = "jdbc:odbc:Employees";
Class.forName ("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver").newInstance();
c = DriverManager.getConnection(url,"sa","as");
          } catch (java.sql.SQLException e) {
               System.out.println("Cannot get connection"+e);
          } catch (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {
               System.out.println("Driver class not found"+e);
     } catch(Exception e){System.out.println("error"+e);}
     }

Answer 1

Well, there's the chance that it's not throwing an exception, but I assume from your post that it should be throwing one. My experience with servlet containers in general shows that one of two things (at least) may be happening.
1) The sys-out err-out is being cached and only periodically flushed to either the event logs or log files.
2) The System.out and System.err are not being directed into the default-err and default-out as the servlet container has it's own environment stdout and stderr directed there, and isn't multiplexing.
The safest way to try this out for real is to open a log file yourself and write the error log, or for a quicker, cleaner short-term solution actually write an HTML (or whatever you're returning to the client) info/error page with the error info embedded inside.
Hope that helps. :-)
Dallas