Brian Kotek has released his Transfer decorator bean injector observer which I’m very excited about because I just needed this functionality for a client’s project and had to write a version myself.

Brian’s is more sophisticated and, hopefully, will be integrated into ColdSpring in due course.

Now I can use his version instead of mine and know that I’m using a community-supported resource.

I know Brian Ghidinelli also ran into this issue and had started to write his own as well.

I expect he’ll switch to Brian Kotek’s version now.

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I’ve done more than a few posts recently about error handling and robust exception information, so I thought I’d write up one entry that can serve as a nice guide for folks to bookmark. By using “Complete” in the title, I’ve also virtually assured that I will forget something critical, so please, send suggestions for what I’ve missed. Let’s get started.

What is the point of this guide? Unless you are a perfect code, there is a chance that your ColdFusion application will have errors in it. The question is - what are you doing with your errors? What was the last error that occurred on your site? If I asked you how many errors your site threw yesterday, could you answer with 100% complete accuracy? I’d be willing to bet most people would say no. Shoot, I know I couldn’t answer that. So what do we do to help resolve this issue?

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