Blog Archive for April 22, 2013

Using Servlet Mapping with Struts 2

April 22, 2013

I had a struts 2 web application, and I wanted to call some code that was implemented as a pure java servlet. Struts 2 uses a servlet filter:

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

and I wanted to setup a new servlet that matched by url:

<servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name> …