diff --git a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/ErrorController.java b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/ErrorController.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96556bd5b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/ErrorController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package com.baeldung.spring.controller;
+
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
+
+@Controller
+public class ErrorController {
+
+ @RequestMapping(value = "500Error", method = RequestMethod.GET)
+ public void throwRuntimeException() {
+ throw new NullPointerException("Throwing a null pointer exception");
+ }
+
+ @RequestMapping(value = "errors", method = RequestMethod.GET)
+ public ModelAndView renderErrorPage(HttpServletRequest httpRequest) {
+ ModelAndView errorPage = new ModelAndView("errorPage");
+ String errorMsg = "";
+ int httpErrorCode = getErrorCode(httpRequest);
+
+ switch (httpErrorCode) {
+ case 400: {
+ errorMsg = "Http Error Code : 400 . Bad Request";
+ break;
+ }
+ case 401: {
+ errorMsg = "Http Error Code : 401. Unauthorized";
+ break;
+ }
+ case 404: {
+ errorMsg = "Http Error Code : 404. Resource not found";
+ break;
+ }
+ // Handle other 4xx error codes.
+ case 500: {
+ errorMsg = "Http Error Code : 500. Internal Server Error";
+ break;
+ }
+ // Handle other 5xx error codes.
+ }
+ errorPage.addObject("errorMsg", errorMsg);
+ return errorPage;
+ }
+
+ private int getErrorCode(HttpServletRequest httpRequest) {
+ return (Integer) httpRequest
+ .getAttribute("javax.servlet.error.status_code");
+ }
+}
diff --git a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/errorPage.jsp b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/errorPage.jsp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ba8a836285
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/errorPage.jsp
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
+<%@ page session="false"%>
+
+
+ Home
+
+
+ ${errorMsg}
+
+
diff --git a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 29608a17ef..2240ac0a22 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -43,4 +43,7 @@
index.jsp
+
+ /errors
+
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