the error-page directive in web.xml doesn't seem to work with Netbeans 6.5.1 and icefaces 1.8.RC2. I was expecting it to start to work after correction of ICE-4078.
Here is the description of the problem. I have a simple project that throw an exception upon the pressure of a button. I would expect to be able to intercept the exception with the error page directive and decide on what page to land. Instead the browser goes to a standard http500 page.
Reading the forums (http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/5057.page,http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/7986.page,http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/7986.page) it seems that the JSF stack specification itself has some problem with the error-page directive given the JSF lifecycle. I admit I haven't understood exactly what is the problem. I've found example projects with icefaces but without netbeans. These projects need a redirect JSP page I'm not sure this technique is possible using netbeans. Anyway notice that with the woodstock faces stack this behaviour works.
I'm attaching a non working project made with icefaces and a working one with woodstock.