You are just calling a method. When it is done it will return. This is the expected behavior.
From the javadoc for those two methods you can see that the difference is what is/isn't done to the Reqeust and Response objects before dispatching the request.
in the code after the call to forward, i throw an exception which should load another error page, which doesnot happen. that is why i am keen to know if the control returns back after forward, coz if it does then the exception must be thrown and the error page must be displayed which is not happening.
The de-facto implementation of RequestDesipatcher object defines the following two things
1. "A call to forward() may be used if *only* if no content has previously sent to the client.
2. "No further data can be sent to a client after tha call to forward has completed.
Assuming your rd.forward() worked succesfully, the request moves out of the current scope and moves on to the forwarded resource.
Why don't you try generating the error page from the resource that this call was forwarded to. (assumption : your architecture should be able to support this)
Cheers!!
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