Spring MVC provides several approaches to exception handling. In Spring, one of the main exception handling constructs is the HandlerExceptionResolver interface (org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerExceptionResolver). Any objects that implement this interface can resolve exceptions that are thrown during controller mapping or execution. The HandlerExceptionResolver implementers are typically registered as beans in the web application context.

Spring MVC creates two such HandlerExceptionResolver implementations by default to facilitate exception handling: