Exception : Server side stack traces

[Franck Tranchant]

Hi there,
In order to manage my own exceptions in an EJB, i have created some classes extending Exception.
Now i would like to display proper messages to the final user, based on the messages defined in my exception classes.
Using standard try/catch, i can easily get reference to the exception that can occur during EJB execution.
The problem is that my message (myException.getMessage) is followed by the extra long message generated by the Server and starting with "Start server side stack trace:".
For exemple :
com.xx.ejb.myException: Can't find the price for this object (objId=7569, sizeCode=LI, colorCode=2)
Start server side stack trace: com.xx.ejb.myException: Can't find the price for this object (objId=7569, sizeCode=LI, colorCode=2)
at com.xx.ObjectAccess.getObjectPrice(Unknown Source)
at com.xx.ejb.ObjectBusinessService.getObjectPrice(Unknown Source)
<....>
about 20 lines here !!
<....>
Any idea about how to avoid the extra message ??
NB : I'm using BEA WebLogic Server v7.0 SP2
Thanx in advance

[Karthik Guru]

A quick solution. One of the standard ways to pick messages are to store them in resource bundles against a key. In your exceptions pass some specific key to the constructor while throwing them.
Then when the client catches it, extract the key, look up the resource bundle and get the corresponding message and display it to the user.
That way your error messages can be internationlized as well.

[Pradeep bhatt]

Catch the exception and display appropriate message for that exception.
If a single exception has different messages then search for the string in the exception message.