exception-type entry in web.xml

[Shantanu Puranik]

Hello,

I have single web application running in tomcat 5.0.
While generating some report, application is running out of memory.
hence throws exception
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
I know, this can be solved by increasing JVM memory allocation.
But at first place, I want to avoid the exception being seen by the user.
Hence I, tried out web.xml enrty for the outOfmemory error, still it shows the exception on the screen.

<web-app>
....
       <error-page> 
           <exception-type>java.lang.OutOfMemoryError</exception-type> 
            <location>/outOfMemoryError.jsp</location> 
</error-page>
</web-app>

Am I missing any thing?

[Sagar Rohankar]

I think, this exception is thrown by your servlet container i.e tomcat , and not by your apps java code .. Hence , I thought your not getting that error page ..

Correct me, If I was wrong somewhere !