I have a bean, which can RequestDispatcher.forward() to an ErrorHandler.jsp file. Since this is a bean, even though I put a return statement after the forward(), the control will still go back to the servlet/jsp file (it just exits from the bean method, not the service() method)... Anyway, I was thinking. In my ErrorHandler.jsp file, is it possible to throw an exception that will abort the return back to the calling servlet/jsp?? Thanks!