ColdFusion includes many tools and techniques for responding to errors that your application encounters. These tools include error handling mechanisms and error logging tools. This chapter describes these tools and how to use them.

For information on user input validation, see Introduction to Retrieving and Formatting Data and Building Dynamic Forms with cfform Tags For information on debugging, see Debugging and Troubleshooting Applications

Contents

• About error handling in ColdFusion
• Understanding errors
• Error messages and the standard error format
• Determining error-handling strategies
• Specifying custom error messages with the cferror tag
• Logging errors with the cflog tag
• Handling runtime exceptions with ColdFusion tags