Active web blocks processing of further filters

[tekbird]

If I have another filter defined in web.xml after the one for ActiveWeb, its doFilter method does not get called. For example, consider the following definition from web.xml

<filter-mapping>
		<filter-name>dispatcher</filter-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
		<filter-name>logger</filter-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

The doFilter of logger is not invoked after dispatcher (org.javalite.activeweb.RequestDispatcher) handles the request.

[Igor Polevoy]

this is a function of Servlet API. If you do not want the dispatcher to capture ALL requests, do not use <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

Also, you do not really need a logger filter, as logging is built-in. In your controllers, you can just:

logInfo(...);
logWargning(...);
logError(...);

In addition, the framework will log every request anyway.