How do web.xml filters work? Can you have two filters map to all pages (/*) and specify the order?

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I want to use Spring Security, and it says to map the filter to /***. But I already have a filter mapped to /*, which is the Tuckee URLRewrite filter.

Is it possible to map two filters to the same thing, and also is there a way to specify the order that the filters get called?

score 40 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '10 at 07:11

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Yes, you can:

The servlet 2.5 xsd:

The order in which filters are invoked is the order in which filter-mapping declarations that match a request URI for a servlet appear in the list of filter-mapping elements

i.e. it depends on the order of your <filter-mapping> elements in the web.xml

answered Jan 23 '10 at 07:11

Bozho

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Is there no way to do this via annotations ? – Mr_and_Mrs_D Sep 24 '12 at 23:41
I don't know how is the order determined when using annotations – Bozho Sep 25 '12 at 07:15
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6560969/how-to-define-servlet-filter-order-of-execution-using-annotations – Bozho Sep 25 '12 at 07:15

How do web.xml filters work? Can you have two filters map to all pages (/*) and specify the order?

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