Handle a non existing servlet exception

Question

When I type a non-existing servlet in a url an exception error

HTTP Status 404 - 

that's reasonable, but where should I handle the exception? at what scope??

Answer 1

You can automatically deliver a custom 404 page. In your web.xml put something like:

<error-page>
    <error-code>404</error-code>
    <location>/404.jsp</location>
</error-page>