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What is the correct location for defining "filterChainProxy"? [message #1064332]

Tue, 18 June 2013 18:50

Raghuram Devarakonda

Messages: 19
Registered: November 2012

Junior Member

Hi,

I have defined FilterChainProxy in my web.xml like so:

    <filter>
      <filter-name>filterChainProxy</filter-name>
      <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>
    
    <filter-mapping>
      <filter-name>filterChainProxy</filter-name>
      <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

Now if I define the bean "filterChainProxy" in META-INF/spring/app-context.xml, it works fine. How ever, Virgo user guide mentions the following note:

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"Spring (and Spring DM) application context XML files should generally be placed in a bundle's META-INF/spring directory, but for a web application, these files must be placed in the WEB-INF directory.

Placing a web application's Spring application context XML files in the META-INF/spring directory produces unpredictable results since Spring DM will attempt to build an application context independently of, and asynchronously from, the web application."
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So I am trying to find a way to move the filterChainProxy definition to some place under WEB-INF. I first tried to put it in "api-servlet.xml" ("api" being name of the servlet) but that didn't work.

Can some one please explain the recommended way of defining filterChainProxy and any other beans in a web application? We also have META-INF/spring/osgi-context.xml to define OSGi services. Where would that file go if we can't put it in META-INF/spring based on above warning from Virgo docs?

Thanks,
Raghu

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