How to create error page in a JSP and Servlet to handle exceptions ?

A simple Web Application that deals with handling of exceptions coming in one JSP and forwarding it to another JSP for handling the exception

1. welcome.jsp

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<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>A User Input Page !!!</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ADB1A9">

 <h1>A Simple Division Application</h1>
 <form method="POST" action="throwError.jsp">
  Number 1 : <input type="text" id="num1" name="num1" /><br>
  Number 2 : <input type="text" id="num2" name="num2" /><br> <br>
  <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
 </form>

</body>
</html>

2. throwError.jsp

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<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<!-- To tell JSP Engine that if error occurs on this page than 
 forward it to mentioned page for handling of Error -->
<%@ page errorPage="error.jsp"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Result !!!</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ADB1A9">
 <h2>The result of division of num1 / num2 is :</h2>

 <%
  Integer num1 = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("num1"));
  Integer num2 = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("num2"));
 %>

 <!-- It will throw NumberFormatException if any of number 
 comes out to be String -->
 <p><%=num1 / num2%></p>

</body>
</html>

3. error.jsp

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<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
 
<!-- To tell JSP Engine that this page is an Error page --> 
<%@ page isErrorPage="true"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Error Page</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ADB1A9">

 <h2>This is our first simple error page in jsp and servlet</h2>
 </br>

 <h3>Below is the stack trace of the error that has occured :</h3>
 </br>


 <p style="color: #FF0000;">
  Error Stack Trace :
  <%=exception.toString()%>
</body>
</html>