4 Chapter 4. Exceptions and error messages The goal of any deployed system or application is to reach and maintain steady state. The most critical task in support of that goal is to monitor your application for symptoms of potential problems that can compromise that goal and address them as early as possible. This is usually the most taxing task in the information technology life cycle. This chapter shows you how to diagnose the symptom of exceptions and errors. The flow chart in this chapter can help you find possible fixes to the exceptions or errors that you encounter in the daily operations of your WebSphere system. It does so based on