Most people set up a Spring MVC 'catch all' exception handler that will automatically forward the end-user to a different page - e.g. an 'unauthorized' view. Look at the Spring @ExceptionHandler annotation or the ExceptionHandlerResolver:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2538031/spring-mvc-best-practice-handling-unrecoverable-exceptions-in-controller and http://www.captaindebug.com/2012/02/spring-3-mvc-exception-handlers.html HTH, -- Les Hazlewood CTO, Katasoft | http://www.katasoft.com | 888.391.5282 twitter: @lhazlewood | http://twitter.com/lhazlewood katasoft blog: http://www.katasoft.com/blogs/lhazlewood personal blog: http://leshazlewood.com
