Question

i want to create url pattern that lead to filter in jsf2.
I tried this code

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>filter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>www.mysite.com</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

but i don’t get to my filter.
can you help?
thanks

Answer 1

You are expecting to map the URL path, i.e. the part of URL that follows host and your web application name.

This is how full URL looks like:

http://www.mysite.com:8080/myapp/path1/path2/path3

where:
8080 is a port – optional – default 80
myapp – the context path of your web application. It is empty if your application is default web application on your app server.

path1/path2/path2 the path. This is what you are mapping using <filter-mapping> tag.

So, if for example you want to pass through your filter all requests to JSP pages say:

<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>

If your UI is under directory ui and you want to filter such requests say:

<url-pattern>/ui/*</url-pattern>

etc.