How to redirect to error page when exception occurs from servlet?

Question

I am writing a servlet, in that if any exception occurs i donэt want to display exception/error message on browser, so I will redirect to my customized error page. So I have

Answer 1

One way to handle it in a generic way is to use web.xml like below:

    java.io.IOException
    /ErrorHandler

I have just included IO exception but you might have say SQLException you could very well add another error-page and another location for the same. Similarly you could say java.lang.Exception type and one handler handling everything.