How to add web fragment project which has filter as dependency to spring boot project

Question

How and where to configure metadata-complete =false and absolute-ordering values in springboot since it doesnot have web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4_0.xsd" version="4.0"
metadata-complete="false">
  <display-name>department-service</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
  <absolute-ordering>
   
    <name>webFrag</name>
  

</absolute-ordering> 

</web-app>


placed web.xml in by creating webapp folder in springboot still filter is not getting invoked