System and method for customized error reporting

A computer-readable medium encoded with a program for execution on at least one processor, wherein the computer-readable medium is not a signal, the program, when executed on the at least one processor performing a method of reporting to a server computing device failure data related to a failure of an application executing in a managed runtime environment, the method comprising acts of:

• registering a plurality of components, each component associated with an application loaded for execution in the managed runtime environment, and each component being adapted to generate attributes that classify the failure;
• in response to encountering a failure in the application, invoking an error reporting process, the error reporting process being configured to:
• obtain a list of the plurality of registered components;
• and
• for each component of at least a portion of the registered components in the list:
• poll the component to determine if the component is adapted to generate attributes that classify the failure;
• and
• determine if the component is adapted to generate attributes that classify the failure, and when the component is determined to be adapted to generate attributes that classify the failure, issue a call to the component, wherein the result of the call provides failure data comprising attributes that classify the failure;
• and
• reporting the failure data to the server computing device,
• wherein registering a plurality of components comprises:
• registering, by the managed runtime environment, at least one component of the plurality of components;
• and
• registering, by the application, remaining components of the plurality of components.