error handling on actionListener and tree.nodeSelectListener

[flyinfish]

I try to display an error message on actionListener or on a nodeSelectListener of a tree.

in both cases there seems to be the same situation as the error is caught and logged on server but not visible/understandable for the user.

<rich:tree nodeSelectListener="#{myBean.nodeSelectionListener}"...>...

<rich:menuItem actionListener="#{searchBean.actionSearch}">

with menu-item i work around by using "action" instead of actionListener for nodeSelectListener i have no clue!

Thanks for any hint

[ilya_shaikovsky]

if the messages should be reported to end-user - maybe it's more convenient to use faces messages?

B.t.w. this is not proper space for usage questons. Moving thread to RichFaces space.

[flyinfish]

i am talking fatal-error-handling.

i do not want to try-catch in every action- or listener method but havig a generic mechanism which catches and handles exceptions and showing an "oops-page" to the user.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

http://articles.alyssar.nl/2008/03/05/jsf-exception-handling/

http://santhoshjohn78.blogspot.com/2009/02/catch-all-exception-page-for-jsf-web.html

[flyinfish]

the whole point is:

• if i use <rich:menuItem/h:commandLink action=".."/>, default ActionListener and javax.faces.context.ExceptionHandler are triggered

  default-behaviour is fine for me, there is no need to do anything further

• if i use <rich:menuItem/h:commandLink actionListener=".."/> or tree.nodeSelectListener ExceptionHandler and com.sun.faces.application.ActionListenerImpl are not triggered and the fatal error is hidden from user