Redirecting to a jsp page inside 'init' method of a servlet

Question

In the next example code, in case some Exception happens, I want to redirect the flow to some
JSP; How can I do that??
     public void init() {
          try {
               <some_code_block>
          } catch (Exception e) {
               //response.sendRedirect(response.encodeURL("/../somePage.jsp"));
               //'response' is not accesible here
     }thanks!

Answer 1

FLAGS are cool!
this is my solution:
public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet {
     boolean success;
     String exceptionMsg;
     public void init() {
          try {
               <some_code_block>
               success = true;
          } catch (Exception e) {
               success = false;
               exceptionMsg = e.getMessage();
     public void service (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
          if (success) {
               <servlet_code_here>
          } else {
               response.sendRedirect(response.encodeURL("/somewhere/SomePage.jsp?exceptionMsg=" + exceptionMsg));
}.. thank for your reply!