Compartmentalized Enterprise Error Handler for Web Applications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current web development frameworks lack effective error handling and auditing capabilities, particularly for legacy systems with multiple servers and applications, often failing to provide comprehensive and compartmentalized error and audit details necessary for troubleshooting and compliance, and do not support Oracle databases for site-wide error handling across multiple servers.
Innovation Solution
A method for implementing an enterprise error handler and audit module that registers custom variables, associates them with data sources, and configures roles for users, allowing for filtered reporting and export of errors and audits across multiple servers, with support for Oracle databases and customizable error handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If comprehensive error and audit details are captured across multiple servers, then troubleshooting capability is improved, but data security and information leakage risk worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments error and audit logging by application, creating separate log files for each web application rather than a single centralized log. This allows development teams to access only their application's error details without exposing other applications' sensitive data, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive troubleshooting and data security
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements application-specific error logging where each application has its own dedicated error log with customized variables. This local quality approach ensures that sensitive data is captured comprehensively for each application while preventing unauthorized access to other applications' data through centralized logging
2Measurement precision
If all custom variables are exported for error analysis, then debugging accuracy is improved, but data privacy and compliance requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and identifies sensitive custom variables (such as personal information, education records, card holder data) and excludes them from error logs by default. This allows comprehensive debugging of application logic while protecting sensitive data from being exported to remote development teams, resolving the contradiction between debugging accuracy and data privacy
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements configurable error logging parameters that allow administrators to define which custom variables should be captured and which should be excluded. This parameter control mechanism enables flexible adjustment between comprehensive debugging and data protection based on compliance requirements
3Reliability
If site-wide error handling is implemented across legacy systems, then system reliability is improved, but implementation complexity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal error handling framework that works across multiple legacy web applications and servers using a consistent configuration approach. The same error logging mechanism can be applied to different applications with varying degrees of customization, reducing implementation complexity while improving system-wide reliability
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AI summary
A method and system for implementing an enterprise error handler and audit module for a web application. The method framework approach embodied in the present invention provides a site-wide error handler and audit for web applications on multiple servers across an enterprise with compartmentalized error and audit reports per application. The present invention focuses on software development user interface and user responses, and so teaches error details and audits from clients to support troubleshooting for different development teams.