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JSTL Catch Tag <c:catch>

JSTL catch tag is used to catch the exception thrown at run time in JSP. The <c:catch> tag catches any Throwable that occurs in its body and optionally exposes it. Simply it is used for error handling and to deal more gracefully with the problem.

JSTL Catch Tag Example:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>c:remove Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:set var="salary" scope="session" value="${100000}"/>
<p>Before Remove Value: <c:out value="${salary}"/></p>
<c:remove var="salary"/>
<p>After Remove Value: <c:out value="${salary}"/></p>

<c:catch var ="catchException">
   <% int x = 5/0;%>
</c:catch>

<c:if test = "${catchException != null}">
   <p>The exception is : ${catchException} <br />
   There is an exception: ${catchException.message}</p>
</c:if>

</body>
</html>

As you can see above, we are trying to display result of dividing firstNumber with secondNumber. It may be possible that secondNumber is 0. In that event, exception will be thrown at run time. <c:catch> block will handle this exception and print the exception in the next <c:if> block.

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!