JSF 2 Global exception handling, navigation to error page not happening

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It’s most likely because the current request is an ajax (asynchronous) request. The exception handler which you’ve there is designed for regular (synchronous) requests.

The proper way to change the view in case of an ajax exception is as follows:

String viewId = "/error.xhtml";
ViewHandler viewHandler = context.getApplication().getViewHandler();
context.setViewRoot(viewHandler.createView(context, viewId));
context.getPartialViewContext().setRenderAll(true);
context.renderResponse();

This is however somewhat naive. This won’t work if the ajax exception is been thrown in midst of rendering of a ajax response.

I’d suggest to not reinvent the wheel. The JSF utility library OmniFaces has a complete working solution in flavor of FullAjaxExceptionHandler. You can find the full source code here and the showcase example here. It makes use of standard servlet API <error-page> declarations in web.xml. This way the error pages are also reusable for synchronous requests, with a little help of FacesExceptionFilter, also provided by OmniFaces.

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