Exception Handling with Spring and Log4J How to log exceptions. This technique will log messages to your server log file, send an email, with the tag stack of the error, for error level warnings and display a generic page to the user.

First step is to set up Log4j.

Make sure you have the following classes in application lib or common server lib. activation.jar This can be got from http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/jaf/downloads/index.html

Set up your log4J configuration file, put this file in your WEB-INF directory