Which is the precedence order of @WebServlet
annotation vs web.xml
servlet mapping?
More specifically we've a use case where we would rather not modify the web.xml
but would need to override one of the servlet mappings.
Our web.xml
has something like:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>foo</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.whatever.simple.foo</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>foo</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/foo/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
And we are considering overriding this using:
@WebServlet("/foo/*")
public class OurCustomImplementation extends HttpServlet {
}
So the question is:
web.xml
?Both Servlet 3.1 Final and 4.0.Final specs say in 12.2 Specification of Mappings:
If the effective web.xml (after merging information from fragments and annotations) contains any url-patterns that are mapped to multiple servlets then the deployment must fail.
So the spec clearly doesn't allow this.
Alternative solution: create a WebFilter that does a forward dispatch to another url, that your overriding servlet handles. Or just do your thing in the filter itself.
the @WebFilter option worked for our purposes