Handle error 404 in web application - not REST application

Question

I\'m trying to handle 404 error using an @ControllerAdvice in a Spring MVC application totally configured using Javaconfig.

Spring MVC version is 4.1.5<

Answer 1

Conclusion seems to be that setting throwExceptionIfNoHandlerFound to true does not throw an exception when no handler is found.

The solution is quite simple. From the javadoc @ DispatcherServlet.setThrowExceptionIfNoHandlerFound. It states here that a NoHandlerFoundException will never be thrown if DefaultServletHttpRequestHandler is used.

Solution hence is to remove the line

   configurer.enable();

from your MvcConfiguration. The exception should fire now and your GlobalExceptionHandler should do the rest!