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How to create custom exception handler class in Struts2? I have tried adding the exception code in execute() but failed.

I hope that this guidelines will be usefull for your question, since it looks a little too broad, so if you have a specific requirement just edit your question. First of all I suggest you to read the official documentation in order to retrieve information about the Exception handling, Exception configuration and Exception Interceptor.
Now, I try to be more detailed as I can two explain how you can handle the exceptions in Struts2:
Global exception handling: everytime your application throws an exception, Struts2 will handle the result with the <global-results> and <global-exception-mappings> tags in struts.xml file.
Action exception handling: everytime your specific action throws an exception, Struts2 will handle the result <exception-mapping> tag inside a <action> tag
Global exception handling
Using the Struts 2 framework you can specify in the struts.xml how the framework should handle uncaught exceptions. The handling logic can apply to all actions (global exception handling) or to a specific action. Let's first discuss how to enable global exception handling.
To enable global exception handling you need to add two nodes to struts.xml: global-exception-mapping and global-results. For example examine struts.xml from the exception_handling project.
<global-results>
<result name="securityerror">/securityerror.jsp</result>
<result name="error">/error.jsp</result>
</global-results>
<global-exception-mappings>
<exception-mapping exception="org.apache.struts.register.exceptions.SecurityBreachException" result="securityerror" />
<exception-mapping exception="java.lang.Exception" result="error" />
</global-exception-mappings>
Now when a SecurityBreachException is thrown, the securityerror.jsp will be loaded. In my opinion global exception are very usefull for generic errors. For example you can create an ApplicationException view with a form used to send to your assistance the stack trace of the problem.
Action exception handling
If you need to handle an exception in a specific way for a certain action you can use the exception-mapping node within the action node.
<action name="actionspecificexception" class="org.apache.struts.register.action.Register" method="throwSecurityException">
<exception-mapping exception="org.apache.struts.register.exceptions.SecurityBreachException" result="login" />
<result>/register.jsp</result>
<result name="login">/login.jsp</result>
</action>
In this example when throwSecurityException method of the Register action throws a SecurityBreachException it returns a LOGIN result and the login.jsp is loaded. I've used this kind of solution for actions that may throw errors after a validation (for example to execute CRUD operations in my database).
Custom error jsp
By default, the ExceptionMappingInterceptor adds the following values to the Value Stack:
exception : The exception object itself
exceptionStack : The value from the stack trace
You can use them to create a custom jsp that prints the error occurred and the stacktrace. Here you have an example:
<h2>An unexpected error has occurred</h2>
<p>
Please report this error to your system administrator
or appropriate technical support personnel.
Thank you for your cooperation.
</p>
<hr/>
<h3>Error Message</h3>
<s:actionerror/>
<p>
<s:property value="%{exception.message}"/>
</p>
<hr/>
<h3>Technical Details</h3>
<p>
<s:property value="%{exceptionStack}"/>
</p>
Logs
I think that also the LoggingExceptions paragraph will be usefull.

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I am using Struts 2.3 and I have dynamic method invocation turned on as well as strict-method-invocation="true" on packages.
The problem is that if the user tries to invoke a method that does not exist or isn't allowed on an action he gets ugly message.
I would like to display my own custom error page for that.
I tried to setup a global exception handler like that:
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Http:inbound gateway which receives the request (error-channel defined to my custom error channel)
Service Activator for basic validations (Exceptions which are thrown from here are handled by error-channel defined on the GW)
splitter
Aggregator
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Our application is JSF2 based and we are desiging a exception handling for that. I tried using JSF2 exception handling framework configured in faces-config.xml.
When I throw a null pointer from backing bean, which is referred in Facelets page, then it is coming to exception handling function as javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException and also it doesn't have any other stack trace about.
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How can we handle exceptions in Struts? Please share the sample code.
The following URL should help http://www.objectsource.com/j2eechapters/Ch18-Exception_Handling.htm
Use log4j to log the exceptions,
Never use System.out.println in struts application to catch exceptions, as it is expensive ,
Tutorials for log4j> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/manual.html
to handle the errors:
in struts project to handle the error objet by using ActionError object and to handle the errors by using ActionErrors object.
for suppose
ActionError ae1=new ActionError("err.one");
ActionError ae2=new ActionError("err.two");
Action Errors aes=new ActionErrors();
aes.add(ae1);
aes.add(ae2);
saveErrors(request,aes);//store the errors object in request object
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1)using try and cach blocks
2)using declarative exception handling technique
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