Server returned HTTP response code: 500

[Heather]

I'm new in J2EE, I'm doing a servlet and I have a problem.
When I call the servlet it return me this error "Server returned HTTP response code: 500"

Can anybody tell me what is this error and solution to this ??
thanks

[bbq]

In IE go to Tools--> Internet options --> Advanced --> Show Friendly HTTP messages checkbox is unchecked. If the checkbox is checked, IE shows generic error page instead of actual error page returned by server.

If you don't get stack trace in browser, check server logs, somewhere you should find the exception.